Why Me?

Scout and I 

What have I learned in my trials so far

I think all I need know for now

Been broken, tattered and forlorn

then beaten and made to bow

 

With time our life so gives

then alongside it must take

Carving character as it goes

a better man of us will it make

 

As I no longer ask the question

God traded me wisdom for truth

Teaching me the meaning of life

in exchange he took my youth

 

Author's Note

Reflections on the inner self

Reviews

[David Lewis Paget]

But would we go back, Tate? It's nice to think that a second crack at youth would be nice, but not if we had to forgo the lessons we've learned on the journey. You have the gift of making the reader stop and consider your poems in the light of their own lives, and this makes them truly worthwhile.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Dave my theory on this is that though they are my experiences and thoughts the music and the melody of the piece seems to access the part of the brain that allows us to recall lost words to an old melody. For that reason even though they are mine they are everyone's as well . So that no matter that they are my emotions that created them they release others emotions as well.Just as a smell of cookies reminds us of grandmas house so do the melodies of these pieces release the memories of the reader concerning similar events.

[Bhavya Kaushik]

I often ask this question to myself indeed.
But, this is a beautiful and a very thoughtful piece of writing here.
Very deep, the idea has been executed very well here.

[LadyNaida]

Wow this is deep.

[A.r. Bazian]

oh how relevant... how provoking... deep!
this is so good, its beyond measure... astonishing, and im not surprised!

[*~Kristy~*]

This was a really really good write!!! I, as a younger person, can't really understand it, but I can see how you feel...I really liked this. Keep writing!

[James Watts]

Life teaches many lessons.

[Isericanormal]

It was enjoying to read and reflect on these words you have written that have come and gone in my head. i loves poems that make u think about indepth things. it makes life more interesing to wonder. and i love you're train of thought. this was really wonderful (:

[Angie Diane♥&hea..]

This was a great poem. Thanks for sharing. :)

[Halkhend]

gosh I just can't stop reading your poems! :)

[Belator Books]

The past paragraph rings with a rather saturnine honesty, not to mention a great deal of sage realization. If we knew in our youth what we know now, oh how frightful a force we would have been... yet happiness would have not been given. Too any good things heaped upon one another--early on--later exacts an equal and opposite reaction.

[Bear]

in exchange for your youth.... this is a wonderful write... full of truth and honesty. Your youth may be past but, keep in touch with it by once in a while being silly doing things you did long ago not knowing that one day you wouldn't have to the time to be a child all do to becoming a man; adult.