What would it be like
To be a duck?
To paddle in water,
To wallow in muck?
If I were a duck
I think I might choose
A pond in a meadow
Where there’s quiet to muse.
There wouldn’t be strife
I’d frolic in peace.
We’d all get along,
Except maybe the geese.
No chores, no school
No homework to…
March 2011
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Look at me today
Just see how I have changed
I used to be that little girl who cried
Alone and scared
And I would say
I’m by myselfI used to cry myself to sleep
Just stay in bed so I could weep
I’d think of you and I would sigh
I didn’t know if I’d surviveBut now I’ve grown
And now I see
That…
The Trouble With Letters, Unsent
My tears will roll one by one down my face
trying to ease the burn on my fingertips as I trace
the words over this folded letter, unsent;
I wrote for you, yet to have it read I never meant.
It is because I am selfish, it is because I am a coward,
I have a cavalcade of pretty words yet I cannot be forward
with how I truly feel; I embrace too much my fear
of being rejected. This letter will burden me for years.