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Teen Poetry #8

myseLf..

~frustrated writer~
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since 2008-02-25

Posts 84

0 posted 2008-03-02 08:28 AM

i have to live myself, and so
i want to be fit for myself to know
i want to be able as days go by
always to look myself straight in the eye
i don't want to stand with the setting sun
and hate myself for the things i've done.

i don't want to keep on a closet shelf
a lot of secrets about myself
and fool myself as i come and go
into thinking that nobody else will know
the kind of person i really am
i don't want to dress myself into a sham.

i want to go out with my head's erect
i want to deserve all people's respect
but here in the struggle for fame of pelf
i want to be able to like myself
i don't want to think as i come and go
that i'm bluster and bluff an empty show.

i never can hide myself from me
i see what others may never see,
i know what others may never know
i never can fool myself, and so..
whatever happens, i want to be
self-respecting and conscience free..

Ri
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since 2008-02-01

Posts 67
Blackburn, England

1 posted 2008-03-02 12:59 PM

I really agree with your point in this poem. I'd rather noone like me at all and be proud of myself than be popular and hate myself.
You are your harshest critic, and only your mind and conscience can stick with you throughout your life

good write

JKyleC
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since 2008-03-02

Posts 4

2 posted 2008-03-02 10:39 PM

good poem... makes you think.

hunnie_girl

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since 2006-06-18

Posts 2567
Canada

3 posted 2008-03-03 01:15 AM

wow LiRa... I loved this it had such a great flow and the words were simply beautiful
Krysti

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