Will I ever get there?

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    Will I ever get there?

    I saw them playing, clicking pictures
    I gently asked ‘can I come up’?
    They shrugged me off
    And said go away, this is not your place!

    I was cleaning the table
    Where I saw his mother
    Feeding him gently
    Telling all the stories I never got a chance to hear

    I silently whispered,
    I wish I had a mother
    Look I’m just here
    Would you keep me like your son?

    I was picking up the plates where one of it fell
    A scream came my way ‘can you do one thing straight?’
    I looked around and all went black
    My cheek turned red, it hurt so bad; did I just get a slap?

    I was cleaning the room
    When my heart started to pound
    Just touched a toy lying around
    And then came he crying about!

    I tried to explain
    I just wanted to play
    ‘They are expensive’ they said
    ‘Have you even seen your face?’

    I sobbed and cried
    No one seemed to have cared
    I have a heart too, am I not a child?
    Is it my fault, if I’m born in a no-where town?

    I picked myself up, brushed myself off
    My stomach crunched, and my eyes felt numb
    But those images kept flashing that day
    And I kept asking myself, 'will I ever get there?'

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    hvyrmtl1 commented on Will I ever get there?

    08-28-2009

    this is really sad. memories can be so painful. even though my parents separated, im glad i still had both of them. perhaps your children will never have to feel the way you did. great work.

    Nousheen

    08/29/2009

    Hi, Thanks for your comments. This poem is pure fictional and not based on me. I just imagined small boys working in houses and then wrote this poem. I'm glad you like it. Thanks.

    Poetry is what is lost in translation.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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