Broken Promises; Mended Lies
Inside the Mind of Tonea Melvin
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Your mind is emptied out of all concern and you know you have to do it. You begin, then all of a sudden, you start to ask a million questions. Where am I? How did I get here? What did I do to deserve this? Who is going to be there to help me? Where is everyone going? Why do I feel so alone? Questions everywhere; Emotions flowing all over your mind and you can’t figure out how this scene is going to end. The confusion starts to overflow and your head feels like it is going to burst into a thousand pieces. Can you keep up with this chaos that’s going on up there? How are you going to stop it? Will it ever stop? You come to your final thoughts. No more time for asking questions, just do what you came to do, even though you can’t remember what that is. You can’t stop now but the pressure is way too much to handle. You see the blood on your hands, but you can’t remember why it’s there. Then the chaos dies down, no more questions and no more answers as you blankly stare at the ceiling. No more confusion.
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About the Book
Tonea Melvin gets home from a hard day at school. She looks to one of her many talents, writing, as an outlet to get any emotional stress out. She decides to pick up a pencil, get some paper and starts to just writing about herself. She realizes that she has a story that she is finally willing to let out, and is going to use the many poems and short stories to help portray everything she wants her audience to know. This 15-year-old sophomore rediscovers herself while going into deep details about herself using her most powerful talent.
About the Author
Tonea Melvin is a 15 year old, educated Dana Hall student who has a passion for writing. Melvin uses her poems and stories to express herself in ways that she normally wouldn't. Her poems are mostly related to her feeling and things she experiences everyday in her life. Tonea Melvin currently is a boarding student at the Dana Hall School, in Wellesley, Massachusetts, but often goes back to her home town in Bronx, New York.