![]() Alone To RotA Poem by Riley Bray![]() This is Me.![]()
Once in a small apartment with brown walls
She opened her heart to a home And she simply smiled and laughed Because she could not speak And that was how she felt. And her parents gave her warm hugs And wet kisses And paraded her around the neighborhood With pride in their eyes That was when she and her father Fed the geese And ran when they were chased away And the garden was a jungle With large cats and strange plants And her parents loved each other And the people she met liked her And sent their kids to play And her parents watched proudly from a distance And her daddy was always there to scare the monsters at night And always did. Once in a home with white walls She opened her heart again And she smiled and nodded Because she had no words And that was polite. And her mom gave her warm hugs But no kisses And walked down the block with her Because that was her job. That was when she and her father Saw each other once a week And ate stale cheese balls And there was only a small garden With small plants and no animals And her parents were angry with each other And the people she met muttered greetings And told their children not to stare And her mom left her grandparents to watch her And her daddy didn't scare away the monsters Because he wasn't there. Once in a prison with a sterile ceiling and dirty walls She locked her heart away And she put on a mask and facade And spoke kind words Because that was courteous And she didn't let her madre give her hugs And definitely no kisses And she stayed in her room Because she had nowhere else to go That was when she and her father Rarely ever spoke And only for short periods of time And to her the garden was a graveyard Where put to rest was her imagination And her parents argued over money And the people she met hated her and didn't understand And no one stood up for her when she was bullied And her grandparents and madre let her be And her daddy didn't scare away the monsters Because the monsters were already in her That's why on a small old computer She opened her heart to strangers And didn't try to hide her feelings Because she had so many words And this was what she needed And she wanted to stop feeling sad And turn off her dark mind And she wrote it in her dark bedroom Because she didn't think Anyone would care.
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Added on July 5, 2013Last Updated on July 5, 2013 Author![]() Riley BrayAbout"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you."---Maya Angelou "I'm not even going to get mad anymore...I'm just gonna start expecting the lowest from the people I thought h.. more..Writing
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