I Am.......Scholarship Slam
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I am a chicana, but I used to not believe it. I know my family, where they came from.That's not the problem. It's others. To them, being Mexican is a checklist: Speak Spanish? Uncheck. Eat spicy food? Uncheck. Brown skin?
I am.
I am.
But who am I?
A piece of paper in the wind.
A soul without purpose?
No! the wind takes me a drift.
To find my purpose,
To write my story,
My own story.
I Am the Odds
18 I am worshipping and living in complete freedom
17 being formed by the hands of our Creator
16 ending nights with multiple verses of the Bible
