This poem is about overcoming the past so you can have a future

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SilentSpeaker
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since 2008-03-26

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0 posted 2008-03-26 07:53 PM

Running

I am running.
I see a toddler,
Cradled in her mother's arms,
Being rocked, hugged, kissed,
Looking up through tearful eyes,
At her mother's face.
Trying to fix her pain.
Sad, prayerful, and sympathetic,
She tries to make up for the baby that didn't come home.
And I am running.

I see a small child.
Standing next to a hospital bed,
Holding the hand of her sister.
She tells herself, she's a big girl now.
She is much too old to cry.
Helpledss, worried, and uncertain,
She wishes she were the one who was sick,
The one lying in the hospital bed.
And I am running.

I see a small girl,
Sitting on a hard, cold, chair,
Desperately clutching at the thin fingers
Of her dying grandmother.
Her best friend.
She refuses to accept the inevitable.
Horrified, grieving, and unaccepting,
She gently lays down two rolled up papers:
A picture of them, and a letter to her Nanna.

I see a girl,
In a blue-flowered dress,
Sitting on the playground... alone.
Nobody is her friend.
Confused, friendless, and alone,
She tries not to let in the hurt,
And she fails.
And I am running.

I see a young woman,
Sobbing late at night,
In her bed.
She can't believe what just happened.
She reads the message again.
"I'm so sorry I have to do this."
Hurt, betrayed, and heartbroken,
She picks up her broken heart,
And tries to fit the peices back together.
And I am running.

I can't run anymore.
I am out of breath.
I stop, just for a moment.
And my past catches up to me.
The memories hit hard.
I am in agony:
Weak, and torn.
I am not strong enough.
I can't take the hurt.
And so, once again,
I am running.

As I run,
A new kind of vission,
Touches my eyes.
I see a bequtiful woman,
In a white flower dress,
Walking through a white room,
With a man that loves her too.
As they pass through,
Those great white doors,
A little girl with a flower basket,
Gently kisses her cheek.
And she is happy, complete.

I slow for a moment,
Then continue my running.
But now I run for a different reason.
I am no longer running away.
I am running forward,
Towards my future.
Finally, ready to embrace it.

shattered-smiles
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since 2008-01-20

Posts 247
inside the shadows

1 posted 2008-03-26 08:09 PM

This poem is really good. It made me cry! I love how you put your words together and made them flow without any lyric or rhyme. Great job. Hope to see more soon.

TJ

No One Knew She Bled To Feel; To Remind Herself That She Was Real

Earl Robertson
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since 2008-01-21

Posts 753
BC, Canada

2 posted 2008-03-26 08:58 PM

Wow, WOW, wow.
You made me tear up and any poem that can do that should be framed!
Exelent first post, I mean...wonderful!
Going in my library.

"Be Strong and Always Remember what made you you." Earl

"Ooo!!! Ooo!! I know! I know! um...he he" Earl
(Yes I am crazy)

SilentSpeaker
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since 2008-03-26

Posts 6

3 posted 2008-03-26 10:27 PM

Thanks guys, I'm glad you liked it! Sorry it made you cry, but that's kind of the point. I think poetry is about making the readers feel what you did when you wrote it. Thanks for the comments!

"I love you not because of who you are, but rather because of who I am around you."
-Anonymous

hunnie_girl

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since 2006-06-18

Posts 2567
Canada

4 posted 2008-03-27 03:56 AM

Firstly Welcome To Passions!! Secondly oh Wow! Alexadria, you made my eyes brim up with tears such a powerful poem I love it! hope to read more soon.
Krysti

shattered-smiles
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since 2008-01-20

Posts 247
inside the shadows

5 posted 2008-05-19 12:14 PM

I'm reading this poem over and over again. It's absolutly amazing, I can't get enough of it. I don't see you on PIP often anymore. Where did you go?

TJ

So cut me into pieces and tape me into something beautiful...

eternally_singing
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since 2007-12-18

Posts 123
PA, United States

6 posted 2008-05-19 12:55 PM

spectacular poem. Great Write!

At night a candle's brighter than the sun

Falling rain

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since 2008-01-31

Posts 2178
Small town, Illinois

7 posted 2008-05-19 05:31 PM

WOW, wow, and wow!! This is just amazing!! I'm not too fond of the title though.. but the poem makes up for the title b/c its all about the poem. Great job and this is in my Library!

~Zach~

"Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant."

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