: About Me

Kayla Kral is a young amateur writer. She attends community college in Pasco county, Florida where she majors in journalism and minors in political science. She is 19 years old, and has already completed a successful year in the United States Army. She hopes to make a career out of the Army in Public Affairs. She is currently in the U.S Army Transportation Corps. She hopes to become a writer for TIME magazine in the future.

My passion is ...

writing to inspire others.

I know too much about ...

hard work.

My parents always told me ...

PMA- positive mental attitude ALWAYS.

My childhood ambition ...

was to become a United States soldier, and I am!

My favorite memory ...

is basic training in Fort Jackson, SC.

Why I write ...

to motivate and inspire others to be all they can be.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

currently reading: We Were Soldiers, Once and Young by Cl. Hal Moore.

My first job ...

was a team leader at Cold Stone Creamery.

My best moment ...

was graduating from basic training in Fort Jackson, SC.

My inspiration ...

the men and women who served in the military before me.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Belonging

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They were my team. Or, so it would seem. Or maybe in my dreams, That team which seemed In my eyes, mean. They were not a team On which their shoulders I could not lean. My happiness and confidence Both seemed to be gone. It seemed so long Before it dawned- This team did not want me I did not want them either. Each and every day My hate for them grew deeper. They probably know this poem Is about them, but- What's now is now, What's then was then. But then again For me, what was then is now A repeat of last time I will not allow No more team The team, which was mean Will only seize to me To ...

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