The Power of Guilt

Ashley: I feel guilt sometimes especially now that my dad is dead like I wonder if there was a way that we could have helped. She says she feels guilty about the lives her parents didn't live because they were faced with raising us or because they were born here in America. Ashley thinks maybe it has a lot to do with growing up in an abusive household learning how to just kind of make it through. Kevin Gooden's poem evokes beauty and art as he looks back on his family members who lived their lives in "artful ways"