Kenya Kissoon

Kissoon’s bio:

Kenya Kissoon is a second-semester sophomore in the honors program and is in dual admissions BS/MA program in Criminal Justice. She aspires to work as an FBI profiler all while advocating for change and the greater good. She is inspired by creativity, music and sports. While she is at John Jay, she hopes to get the chance to join one of the athletic teams and cross it off her list of achievements.

This poem is one of the many, multi-genre writings in Kissoon’s portfolio:

It kinda makes sense

Ball is life

That’s what all the boys

And all the sporty girls said

But what’s the meaning

It consumed me

Consumed my soul

My body and mind

But certainly

It only seemed to consume, me

But perhaps

That remained a dream

A dream where I was no longer

Grumpy

Because then,

I became a different me

A not so grumpy me

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