My comfortable place is with the ones I love, the ones I share day to day experiences with. For when I am alone I feel threatened, empty, and incomplete…When I am around friends and family I feel alive, complete, and loved…My strength; does not come from me alone, but from my friends and family. I will fight to keep my friends by my side; I will fight to keep my family alive. When I am alone I might as well be in an insane asylum; for I will die inside. For I care for others more than I do myself, I put my friends and family’s priorities over mine. I will take a bullet, a care, or even the blame for my loved ones…This is my comfortable place…This is my safety zone; tear me from them, and I will rip your heart out! For I am invincible in the heart of a friend…I am everlasting in the mind of a sibling, for my comfort comes form with in…Within me and the ones I hold dear…
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When I was just 7 years of age; in 4 grade…I was rapped; rapped by the people I called friends. Do to this incident I fell into a state of peculiar circumstances…I longed for a person’s touch; so I sleeked it through other friends…Thus I became bi-sexual. All though before this incident accrued, If always longed to be around other people. I was born a preemie; I was 2’ 8’…I was on the verge of death; in till I felt the touch of my grandmother’s fingers…I turned to her and look at here in the eyes’ for that was the day she fell in love with me…Me here first grandson; as I grew older and stronger I lived to see tomorrow…I lived to be 18.
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For I am now 18, I have a job at Kroger and I attend TCC south campus college. I can sing and dance; I can braw with the best. I have survived because of my family, I have survived because my friends believed in me…I will continue to fight for my comfort space…My space created by love; love shared by the hearts of my friends and family.



By,
Jacob Hampton Adger Ramsey