For the first time DCCC hosted its first annual College- Wide Reading Competition, after students read the memoir, “Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa” by Rigoberto Gonzáles. Students could submit essays and poems about the book. This year’s winner of the $200 prize scholarship, as well as the opportunity to introduce Gonzáles when he spoke at the Marple Campus on April 13, was Premisa Kerthi. This is her winning poem:
My voice was down
My hope was big
My family was messy
Nobody can see my needs.
Life is mysterious
Too many things we can not see
Sometimes our hearts are broken
But still sunshine warms them.
I tried to find the place
But it was no where
Nobody can believe it
And they continue doing
normal things.
People are blind
They can not see the truth
They can see just what interests them
They don’t understand other’s feelings
They care about money
But they don’t know the meaning of empathy,
See written in the sky
“Human Bean”
Nobody can see
If it’s not money.
Just look around
I need basic things
Nobody can help me
And I just feel empty,
I see in a God
I pray for health
Nothing matter’s
Unless I believe in myself.