As I’m standing outside the Bart station waiting on a ride I’m looking at things I forget the people I can’t help but miss. I use to be at this Bart Station everyday waiting on the bus to get home now I’m feeling like where is my home. Is it back at the place I escape from or is it at the place I want to get away from. I thought getting away from my hometown was the answer for me, now I’m saying to myself how I wish things would go back to the way they use to be. But with a new spin for me, I’m not going to be with a girl who I thought love me or being unhappy. I’m going to leave my hometown, feeling brand new and free. I’m not happy with the new situation that I’m in but this time I leave without no demons within. How much I miss my hometown of Richmond.
By Rachel Davis
Rachel Davis was born and raised in Northern California. Raised by her great aunt and uncle, Rachel found a voice in her poetry as a young child as a way to be heard.
Rachel says her poetry is an outlet for anything going on in her life at the time. Rachel wants her stories to reach a teen or a adult in their darkest moments and let them know that everything is going to be ok when they give their lives to God. I am openly gay, and I still believe in God with all my heart. I wasn’t born to be gay and I am proud of my decision for being myself.
“My heart, spirit, and soul are in my poetry and that is the only thing I want people to see,” Rachel Shares with us in her reflections.
