Do I wear the mask or does it wears me ?
I wear the mask to protect what remains ,
The tears and sadness remains in the mask , 
No one knows ,
They expect that I am okay always happy ,
What no one knows is what's behind the mask,
    The pain , 
                   The trouble ,
                                       The stress ,
That was never shown to the world , but the mask ,
I wear the mask to block my emotions , 
To make people think that I'm okay ,
But truth i do not say !
Do I wear the mask or does it wears me ?
I must show myself to let them know the real me
Of what I struggled,
Ain't no easy way out but I made it this far 
Many days I slip back , Frustrated cuz its hard
But I'ma show the real me
And I'ma show them that I can take control in my destiny 
And break myself free,
Now who wears the mask ?

PWA ESSAY

Did you know the freedom that you have is very important ? People around the world, from the past , and present time, they have been fighting for their rights and it would take years for them to achieve the goal. Some of the people had died for freedom, Octavia Butler’s message was to tell the readers to live the life how you want it to be & appreciate the freedom & rights that you have.

“Don’t tell them no, don’t let them see you mad, just say yes, sir ... go head and do, might have to take a whippn’ for it later.” Page 96 . This quote from the book KINDRED, explains that the slaves are scared to fight back and some of them just respect their masters so that they could free them. A connection I have with this quote is I used to be nice to my mom and my little sister to let her buy me anything that I want at the mall. This quote connects to my topic because they’re fighting by respecting the masters, so they could get their masters into freeing them.

    An evidence that shows why you should appreciate your freedom because people died for it, is when Frederick Douglass and other abolitionist try their best to learn things by themselves, to escape and abolish slavery . Most of the abolitionist and slaves have been oppressed in many violent ways and they were killed. No matter what happens to them, they’re still trying to free themselves and help other slaves to be able to have the some rights and freedom. Now, you know who, what and why you should appreciate your freedom reading my second evidence in the past. Now , I’ll give an evidence from our present time.

    An evidence that proves my theme of this prompt correct is from our present time. Immigrants from our present time are still fighting for their freedom rights. This situation have been going on for years now, some immigrants were born here in the United Sates and then deported back to their Parents or Grandparents homeland. Some immigrants were brought to the United States and now deported back because they say there’s no more room for anymore people. Then , they are also being deported back to they homeland. Also immigrants are crossing the border and  sometimes shot or killed by the guards. Immigrants don’t just fight for their own freedom rights, but also for other immigrants and people in the world. Sometimes immigrants try very hard to get freedom rights and then end up with stress, killed, diseases and etc.

    Now that you heard all three of my evidence and example of why you should appreciate what you have, especially your freedom because people died for it. There were people from the past and present time and in books, there are stories and true stories that people have and still is fighting for their freedom rights. Thank you for taking your time to read my essay, I appreciate you for that !