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Court employee wins in poem contest
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Posted on Oct 20 2000
It was a poem she made in 1994 after a friend of hers became pregnant at an early age. Six years after, as Cathy Chargualaf was surfing the Net, she saw a website for poets and decided to submit her piece.
In June, she received a letter requesting permission if her poem entitled “Why Happen Now” can be published. The following month, she received a notice that her poem has already won an award.
Twenty-three-year-old Ms. Chargualaf will join more than 300 poets who will be given an award during the annual convention of the Famous Poets Society to be held in Reno on Oct. 27,2000 where she will be given a medal and a trophy.
She has already written about 100 poems since she started at age 5. “I write about anything that inspires me,” she says. A former sociology major student at the University of Washington in Seattle, Ms. Chargualaf now works as secretary at the Superior Court. One day, she hopes to go back to school and finish her course. (LFR)
Why Happen Now
She didn’t believe it could happen to her
Why happen now when it didn’t before?
She never thought of the risk, never once thought ahead.
Now she’s two months late and wishing she was dead.
Still denying the truth, trying to pretend
But there are no answers, just a dead end.
Where is he now? Will he come back if it’s true?
Then what if it is? Then what will she do?
Why is this happening, and why happen now?
No, it isn’t true. There’s no way no how!
She’s weighing her options and they don’t look too good.
She’s thinking of things she once did not think she could.
She’s looking for answers but none are in sight.
All of these problems just because of one night.
Why didn’t she see it? Why didn’t she know?
There’s no where to hide, no where to go.
She’s scared and frightened and done in the world
A mistake made in heat by a naive teenage girl.
