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christies heart
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since 1999-08-10
Posts 189
NJ, USA

0 posted 1999-08-25 10:24 PM


My parents fight
in a distant room.
Neglected and numb,
I try to drift
into a blissfully ignorant
sleep.

I count the tiles on the wall.
I count the threats in my father's words.
I count the sorrows in my mother's sobs.
I count on calm that never comes.

Still, I remain
helplessly awake,
captured in the
sugar coated prison
of childhood.



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Grant that I may not judge my niegbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasians

Native American prayer

© Copyright 1999 Christine R - All Rights Reserved
moonmoon
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since 1999-08-13
Posts 277
TX , USA
1 posted 1999-08-31 08:51 PM



I hope this is not a product of your childhood agony..No child should go through that pain & confusion...((hugs))



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"No one was ever ruined from without;
The final ruin comes from within.".....Amelia E. Barr



Emmy
Member
since 1999-06-29
Posts 194
KY
2 posted 1999-09-04 09:33 PM


Your poem hit home somewhere inside me... ouch... and lots of pain came with it too. I remember how eager I was at first to grow up and understand, and then when I finally did how much I missed being as ignorant as I was, and oblivious to my parents' fighting. I love the second part, wonderful. Just wonderful.
snacks
Junior Member
since 1999-08-21
Posts 35
NJ
3 posted 1999-09-05 05:39 AM


moonmoom..thanks for the comment and the concern. Actually, this is a product of my childhood...and this is most likely representitive of the least painful experiences. But time has done wonders...and I am approaching feeling as if I "come to terms" with this past. Having children has helped me in finding some reason for my childhood..I know exactly how I could never be with my own children. This has made me a better parent, I am sure. You are certainly right about no child should endure anything like this. Emmy..thanks for what you said. I know what you mean about not understanding...I sometimes wish I could have denied certain things forever..

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God is seen always in a child's eyes

snacks
Junior Member
since 1999-08-21
Posts 35
NJ
4 posted 1999-09-05 05:42 AM


To clear up any confussion..I wrote this poem but posted the reply (by mistake) under my sister's user name(we share the computer)
Poet deVine
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since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley
5 posted 1999-09-05 09:59 AM


This is a good poem with a great message. Wish it could somehow be given to all children around the world that have to go to sleep listening to anger! Thank you for sharing a bit of yourself with us.

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