(After Ocean Vuong’s “Someday I’ll love Ocean Vuong”)
Jenniffer. Don’t give up.
It might be raining now
but it won’t rain forever.
Everything will be okay. You are
your own motivation and always have been.
But now, Aleah, you will be my motivation too.
No matter how many times we may struggle, we
will always keep moving forward. Are you
listening, Jenniffer? Are you ready? You’re back
in school now, and I cannot wait to finally say
“I made it.”
Jenniffer Gonzalez lives in Chicopee, but was born and raised in Holyoke. She is the proud mother of a three-month-old baby girl, Aleah. She plans on getting her HiSET soon. She wants to make her family proud and to be a role model for her daughter.
