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Camesha Peterkin

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Camesha Peterkin is a content creator and visual storyteller.

Ellen is a multi-disclipinary digital creator who works with fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands.

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Final Collaborative Project Camesha Peterkin- Voices Of The Dead

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Will I Ever Tell The Story By: Camesha Peterkin

Will I ever tell the story of how I lost my first two teeth

Will I ever tell the story of how theifing out di lasco was so sweet

Will I ever tell the story of how my life turned around. 

Will I ever tell the story of how for a positive they spoke of me on the phone, quietly, exchanging words that brought life and not tears, a good look and not one that was smeard, by where they see me vs where they think I should be.

Will I ever tell the story of how you kept me, sane through all of this, psychological turmoil, family breakdown, plot twist

God will I ever tell the story of how I made it from around the desk and walked across to collect the so-called”it” paper in my white dress

Will I tell the story of how I found my way back to you. Of how fear, pride, habits you cut through and sutured my heart to make it brand new. Will I ever tell the story of how I learned to love you

despite home becoming a strange place, where food was hid under the bed and in a suitcase

The story of being a burden to my very own, will the story  be told of my long walk to freedom away from home

Will I ever tell the story of how irrespective my love didn’t turn cold

Will I ever tell the story before they are caskets and head stones

Will I ever tell the story of the road to telling the story that YOU had, have written, the snippets given, told, confirmed by your children

Will my life tell the story or as i lay in state if so, be subjected to a story told to sound appropriately fitting but not fittingly appropriate over a microphone.

Inspiration Behind The Voices Of The Dead

As in the poem above, so too they are voices to be heard, stories to be told beyond the stories that we have heard, were told and when told, these stories, voices should never become lost in books, an era, the movies we see; but must still live on in our minds in our hearts, beyond the owner of the voice that we can no longer see. Death should never make a voice void, instead the legacy of our heroes as and heroines should still be heard today, as they are still valid, and have the power to impact, channel a positive change though they are no longer here.

In saying that “dem dead and gone” we are in actuality, downplaying , discrediting the long road they have walked to freedom and the liberty we are now standing in. As a nation, let us rediscover the stories of our freedom fighters, in order to rebuild what we have have lost. For though we are not able to bring them back to life, in valuing the voices of the dead we are able to relocate our minds to a more stable place and resurrect our identity beyond black movements that took place, but starting our own; influencing Jamaica ,the world as they did and beyond.

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