Congratulations to Arianna El-Amin. The GHS Junior and varsity tennis player is now a published poet. GHS Librarian Noel Clevenger recently shared with us El-Amin's poem entitled "Shrinking my Curls."
Shrinking My Curls
My black thick hair up in a bun
Most days
Or a side bun
Too scared to wear
It down
Too scared to hear what they thought.
I secretly knew what they thought.
They thought what they saw.
And they saw curls that
Reached my shoulders
And not my back.
Curls that had a
Mind of their own
And not curls
That were paper thin.
My curls gave me strength
The strength I've let so many people
Comment on.
People ask to touch my
Strength.
People ask me if my strength is real.
My strength is beautiful
and untouchable.