YOU SHOWED ME THE ROPES,
YOU GAVE ME A HAND UP TO REACH THEM,
BUT YOU NEVER PULLED THEM FOR MR.

YOU MADE ME HEAR THE MUSIC,
EXPLAINED TO ME THE NOTES,
BUT YOU NEVER MADE ME HEAR THEM.

YOU TAUGHT ME THE WORDS,
MADE ME UNDERSTAND THEM,
BUT NEVER HELD THE PEN FOR ME.

YOU SHOWED ME THE FLOWERS,
IDENTIFIED THEM FOR ME,
BUT NEVER SMELT THEM FOR ME.

YOU LOVED ME UNCONDITIONALLY,
NEVER ASKED FOR ANYTHING IN RETURN,
AND THAT'S WHY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH.....

there is a child
who sits and broods
over her inability to age
tingling with the need
to run her shaking fingers
over the hands
of the boy beside her.

there is a child
who sits and stares
out the window
towards the ocean
because dreaming is the method
she must use
to save a smile.

there is a child
who sits and weeps
over innocence forgotten
and experience neglected
with the rising tide
and crashing waves.

there is a child
who will lay down
beneath a shroud
to be abandoned
and no mother will dare mourn
in the wake of her new day.

Silver


Slowly,silently,now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees,
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the pink breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.

The Crystal Gazer
I shall gather myself into my self again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.
I Shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent.
Watching the future come and the present go -
And the little shifting pictures of people rushing
In tiny self-importance to and fro.

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by Josie B. Marcel
Though it doesn't show
It still hurts inside
Still I think of all the times
I sat alone and cried
My childhood was ruined
and I can't go back in time

Momma, what were you thinking
What was going through your mind
Daddy you've done so much wrong
It kills me inside and brings me down
Still, I try to stand tall and strong
But all I can do is frown

Did you think I'd never know
Did you even care
How could you leave for days at a time
Like I wasn't even there
I try to hold my head up
but there's not a day I don't think of the past

I hide the feelings deep down inside me
Did you think I'd forget that fast
It's been years and there are more years to come
and still it'll hurt me as the days pass by
I'll never understand why you did it
I'll never understand why you lied

Yeah...it's better now
and everything is fine
But you will never understand
What I had in my mind
I felt like you didn't want me
Like I was nothing in this world

Mom and Dad, you were addicted to crack
I was an eight year old girl
I lived with family and friends
'cause all the money went for crack
Didn't know where you were going
Didn't know when you would be back

Daddy, I watched you beat my mom
She didn't leave 'cause she was addicted
Every time we'd find a place and settle down
A month later we'd be evicted
I was eight; my sister was nine
My little brother was two
How would it make you feel
If your parents did that to you

You will never understand
How you made us feel inside
So many times I stayed up late
Couldn't sleep, could only cry
I know I wouldn't do that to my kids
So you did teach me something good
But why you would want to do that to us
Is something I never understood

I can never forgive you for that mistake
Because it has changed my whole life
There was always nothing but drama
So there was always strife
I still love you with all my heart
Nothing can make that change
Nothing can make you not my parents
Nothing can make the past rearrange

I'm gald I turned out the way I did
and not like most kids would
I know what not to do
and I know what I should
I love you, Mom
and I love you, Dad
I love you for not giving me
The things I never had

WHO IS A FATHER
AN ANGLE OR HUMAN?
HE IS WISE , HE IS VERY NICE
WHO UNDERSTANDS HIS CHILD FROM EVERY SIDE
PROTECTIVE AND CARING
GREAT AND DARING
HE IS A TEACHER, HE IS A GUIDE
HE IS LOVING AND IS ALWAYS RIGHT
SO WE SHOULD PRAY FOR HIS LONG LIFE
AS HE IS AN INDISPENSABLE PART OF OUR LIVES

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