Pedro el Poeta
Bio
Pedro el Poeta is an award-winning Hip-Hop/Spoken Word/Freestyle artist, an activist, a proud father of two, a teacher, and an Eckerd College graduate with a B.A. in Creative Writing.
For more, please visit: pedrothepoet.com
Stories (2/0)
The War on my Innocence
The Departure I was born during the civil war. I did not really know what that meant until my door got kicked in by the violent militant rebel group known as the Contras. I was five years old when they took my father, forced him into the back of a truck, and dragged him off to war. My biological father was already a part of the war, but he was willingly fighting for the Sandinistas (the other side). It was difficult for me to comprehend, at that age, why my fathers were facing off to kill each other. My mother, a tough woman, was my only comfort, though I could see her pain through her smile.
By Pedro el Poeta2 years ago in The Swamp