Inside Or Out(Why Do They Have To Chose) Poem by Dianna Nally

A single mom with 2 beautiful children
Who have more energy then they know what to do with
Lives in a small place in the projects.
Ones in third grade and the others in the fifth.

The children have to stay in the house all the time.
Their not allowed to go outside and play
The neighborhoods too dangerous for anyone who lives there.
A child was out side and got shot that very day.

She doesn't just sit around watching TV
She has a job plus she's a domestic engineer.
Trying to save up enough money so she
Can move her children into a healthier atmosphere.

But with the cost of living constantly on the rise
Working one job just isn't enough.
Having no family to help her care for the children
Makes finding trust worthy child care really tough.

Neighborhoods like that don't just have thugs and gangs.
There are good hard working families trying to excel.
These people don't just wake one morning
And say, I wanna live in the neighborhood from hell.

I wrote this because I have seen the way
These people are treated everyday.
I can't imagine what it's like for these people
To have to live in such dismay.



Dianna Nally
3/3/08