You Did Everything...

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    You Did Everything...

    You did everything before me..

     

    Took your footsteps…

     

    Rode a bicycle…

     

    Kissed a boy…

     

    Drove a car…

     

    Graduated from high school…

     

    Even had a child before me.

     

     

    I know that having a child so young

     

    Is one of your biggest regrets in life

     

    You may think, I don't know but I see it

     

    And although he is a blessing, a wondrous miracle in fact.

     

     

     

     

    I often feel that you wish the roles of you and I had switched.

     

    I was the "so-called" dummy of the family, with not much goin' for my life

     

    I didn't have the grades or social status to be one of the greats.

     

    It should have been me pregnant at 18 struggling to make ends meet.

     

    Not able to finish college, because I am always tired from the job.

     

     

    I see that glare of envy

     

    The stare of hate

     

    Because I am living the life that was supposed to be yours

     

     

     

    You want to know how I can tell

     

    It's everytime you belittle me with something

    Negative or prove just how really smart you are

    To make yourself seem more superior and me less like a queen.

     

    It is every time you see or hear of my good doings and you gotta push me back

     

    Down to reality as if to remind me 'once a scrub, always a scrub.'

     

     

     

    But precious, precious sister of mine

     

    Don't give up, don't lose hope

     

    And always, always keep the faith

     

    For in due time, that glimmer of the silver lining

     

    You once saw is not too far off in the distant future.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    backspace commented on You Did Everything...

    10-13-2009

    hi this is backspace this poem is deep i am feeling you can not wait to read your mind

    Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

    T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) American-English poet and playwright.

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