Poetry

Trio Spotlight Third Place Winner: Wendy Z.

All Alone

Part 1: Trapped
Emptiness
That’s all I feel
Locked up
In an endless field
Chained up
With no escape
Straining
With no embrace

Part 2: Alone
With no one by my side
No one to drag me out
Why would they bring me out
When they hurled me inside
They tempt
They lie
They exempt
They say bye

Part 3: Abandonment
Heart-clenching life
Where suffocation lies
Drowning in trife
Forever dies
Where to go
Where to find
For friends that know
The pain of bind

Wendy Z. is the Trio Spotlight Third Place Winner. Eastern Gateway’s Upward Bound program is a federally funded TRIO program. Upward Bound is designed to provide students (grades 9 through 12 who are low-income and/or first-generation) with the skills and motivation they need to pursue postsecondary education. Upward Bound participants receive a variety of services designed to help them prepare for college. These resources are provided at participants’ schools and on EGCC’s campus.