Best Poems Written by Nicole Rodriguez

Tired Eyed Chicana

It's 3am in this cold dark place and my eyes have yet to shut. So there will be no 
dreams of better places and things to come. Now it's 4am as I go to brush my 
teeth I look up from the sink at the reflection of a tired eye chicana girl. In less 
then seven hours I'll be standing in front of the one person that can say, "Time 
served, you are free to go," or turn around and give me more time in this cold 
dark hell whole. Long ride back to what is my home for now, dealing with loud 
rude men behind me yelling and barking nasty coments like, " Show me what 
you got Miss. Thang." Thirteen hours later,I'm finally back in G~Dorm with tears 
rolling down my face knowing that I'm gonna take the blame for something I did 
not do. As I lay down to try to sleep I keep wondering when the day will come that 
this tired eye chicana will awake from a bad dream of a hell whole that's cold.

Copyright © Nicole Rodriguez | Year Posted 2006