Remember being the child who failed?
Recall the times you fell and your parents yelled,
for upsetting their plans of your clothes being clean,
because of a grass stain on your new jeans?
Do the times you didn't move fast enough bring memories to light?
Or just raw fear of your parents might?
Did getting screamed at or beat make you move quicker?
Was your response a reaction to the attitudinal flicker?
Recall coming home from school, hoping for a hug?
instead of being treated like a dirty little bug?
Have had to pick your own switch to get your lash
because you forgot to take out the trash?
Did you ever sit and want to cry
because you were constantly told, you didnt try?
Or want a welcome and made to feel you were missed,
instead of the greetings of a step father's fist?
Did you ever long for a kind word to be said
from the ones who made you feel like you'd be better off dead?
Was your child hood always full of fun,
or would it have been better if you had a gun?
Was it a knee, a belt, or simply a switch
that caused you to hurt and your muscles to twitch?
When you sat and wondered what you did wrong,
was your room a mess or was it a bad song?
Have you ever wished you had been a regular kid,
to study or play and not have to worry what you did?
Have you ever sat and wondered through all the years
why someone would want to fill your life with so many tears?
Is there strength to be gained from the lessons learned?
or was it whittled away...... and the pieces burned?
Were your hopes and dreams destroyed beyond repair,
leaving you empty and full of despair?
Did you believe when you grew up all would be fine,
That when you did, you'd find a place that you could call 'mine.'
that the fears would be gone and the pain go away,
a love and a home where your heart could stay?
Can this be possible without facing the fact?
That it was me in reality, who caused them to act.
How would it have been, if I hadn't failed
Could I have been the kid, who they would have hailed?
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Got kids???
By Wytewolfe
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