Stop measuring me in meters

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Teen Poetry #8

Stop measuring me in meters

Assassin_of_Verse
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since 2007-10-23

Posts 330
that So Cal

0 posted 2008-07-26 11:54 PM

Stop measuring me in meters

5×3=15
But 5ft. and 3in. do not account for 15 years.

One's standards are too narrow
or broad
to accurately measure one's worth.

Every milestone marks a marathon of growth.
Every year is just an anniversary of an inch on the road of life.

But the world's standard is not my own.
I am pressured into conformity.

The conversion is tedious and painful.
And after the change,
I am a fraction of myself.

Although the meterstick of the world marks my flesh,
Every inch of me is still my own.

So stop trying to measure me in meters.
The world's standard is not my own.

7/17/08

midnightdreamer
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since 2008-02-03

Posts 309
Roy,ut

1 posted 2008-07-27 01:18 PM

awesome poem.
midnightdreamer

"It was heaven........right in the center of hell" Bella from New Moon

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