She's Home Now Poem by sheniqua lowery

There was a girl named sheniqua lashay lowery
Who lived in a apartment all her life with her father and her younger brother William jr
She had a life like an average girl
She had toys and books and a great education
She loved school when she was young and had friends, never was she shy once till she got of age and went her own way
I mean at age 8 she was independent and carried on adult independence like cleaning and doing dishes and chores like no other it was tough on her but she made it through the wire and she should be proud of herself.
But she was not all she ever wanted was a family like she saw on TV whenever she had the chance to turn one on
She just always daydreamed about how life would be with a nice family with some pets and lot of siblings around to laugh, play, cry, and pray
She couldn’t ask for nothing else then that.

Then when she came of age at the tender age of 16yrs old.
She was living with her father William sr and lived an a military base homes that where section 8
She was turned around from being non shy to shy and quiet
She just was hurt inside to have to be a grown up
When she was just a teenager
She always cooked and always cleaned
I mean you have to its life
But to not get to have friends and pets to keep it got lonely
All her life she knew her father did drugs but never told a soul till now
You ask why I didn’t tell someone early
She really doesn’t know
She wanted to be able to have slumber parties and cool birthday parties without her father being high and strung out on crack almost every night and day
She couldn’t bare to see her father in this situation
So one early morning she heard her father out side yelling at her brother William Jr saying “what boy go to school”
She looked out her window to see her father have a gun and quickly called the police on him and at the moment in time of all her 16yrs of living
She didn’t want to be in that place nomore
Yes place she no longer called it a home of her own
When the police showed up they talked with him
And yes he was strung out on crack and they still didn’t do anything about it which made me so scared
Like oh my gosh is he gonna hit me what’s going to help happen to me
So after they talked the police took me and my brother to school
I cried all the way to school that day and couldn’t focus so she just left to the consular
Who never was there that very day?
So she had no other choice but to go back to her classes.
1 month later
January 12,2007
We where in a DSHS office for my brother William Jr for a contact order against my father
So half my family and my brother are all sitting around a round table talking about what is gonna happen to my brother
But then when it neared the end of the meeting
She poured her soul out about how life was and how life shoulda been for her
Everyone was shocked and she was in tears
And that was the end of that meeting
The little girl that was tearing up inside me was now out and suffering
The pain and the sorrow
The brother and the sister
Where sitting in a office little room till they got into a stabled home
Then they found somewhere for them to go
They went to a agency called tuffs which at first was like
What is this it’s small
But it was nice
But something all never forget is that day
That the girl and her brother were spilt apart from each other
And she was sad
While all that happened she went to this home
In Tacoma, WA where she rarely liked
Cause the rules where so strict
That’s because she was used to being independent and on her own
But she loved the outdoors over where she was and just liked to walk around and smell the nice air and think a lot about the past and what had happened
A couple months later she was removed from that home
Because of a fight she had had with the foster mother
And they put her in a home with 8 other people which were like wow at first lots of people
Then she thought to her self
Wow I always wanted a big family to love me
Let’s go check this place out
As she walked up four steps to the house of the Johnsons
She thought to her self
Cool nice house
She sat there and just thought this is the right place for me
She has been here for 2 yrs now and is so grateful to be here
She loves it and she loves her new family who adore her and she adores them right back
She’ll always have a past but she’ll never have a chance like this again
Well you know why silly because you only live once you know
She loves them so much there her life
She is glad to know that someone out there loves her
Which are the Johnsons?
And I am sure others out there love her too
But overall this is her family
And she can proudly say she is now
Official a Johnson yay
But she’ll always be William herny sr and robin wade’s little baby girl
I never thought in millon years that I’d have a family of my own and a house to come home too.
Thank You Johnsons! ! !

-Sheniqua Lashay Lowery-
1990-present