Growing the Voices of Our Future
The Westside Gazette Newspaper is honored to feature these editorial contributions made by local students.
By Layla Davidson
At school we have an annual Literary Fair Project in which we write a poem, haiku and other genres of writing. I wrote a rhymed verse poem. I wrote on Emmett Till. The title of my poem is Emmett Till: I Will Still Sing My Song. When I write poems I just write a bunch of them and whichever one I like the most is the one that I expand on. Here is my poem below:
Emmett Till; I Will Still Sing My Song
My name is Emmett Till
I was tortured to death
because I whistled. From there
everything went downhill
Momma wanted an open casket
So, they would know what they have done What they did to me was wrong but I will still sing my song
They beat and abused me because
the woman lied
and now my family has cried
You see I was taught to not feed wrong with wrong because that’s not right even though she did me wrong I will still sing my song
In the end, the woman did
admit that she lied
I wanted her to feel my pain
but I know that’s something I won’t gain but I will still sing my song
