{"id":35854,"date":"2011-05-24T07:41:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T11:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=35854"},"modified":"2011-05-24T07:41:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T11:41:23","slug":"poem-my-bitter-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/poetry\/poem-my-bitter-past\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: My bitter past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35855\" title=\"poetry\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/poetry2-300x132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/poetry2-300x132.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/poetry2-150x66.jpg 150w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/poetry2.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>I`m writing this poem for me and all of you too<br \/>\nThose who can relate to what ive been through<br \/>\nThe others take it how you want but know what I mean<\/p>\n<p>Cause I have no space &#8230;..no more space to keep whats hiding within<br \/>\nJust when you thought you could try putting the painful past behind you<br \/>\nThere it goes creeping at you in all that you do<\/p>\n<p>It haunts your memory&#8230;..your happiness&#8230;&#8230;.your true sense of purpose<br \/>\nSlowly comes at you like a thief in the night<br \/>\nIt`s whole reason is to never &#8230;..never do you right<\/p>\n<p>Oh how I wish it could all go away<br \/>\nBut the whole reality of it all is as bright as day<br \/>\nI sometimes cry alone and wonder why &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;why did you have to hurt my pride<\/p>\n<p>You know i couldnt fight back&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;hell I was only a child<br \/>\nYou robbed me of my innocence&#8230;..my whole being<br \/>\nAt such a tender age couldnt you tell didnt you see I had no idea what it mean<\/p>\n<p>For years I blocked out the memories hoping they would forvever stay away<br \/>\nBut they have been hunting my mind with each passing day<br \/>\nWhy &#8230;..oh why did you have to hurt me this way<\/p>\n<p>My life have been a roller coaster one minute I&#8217;m up and and about<br \/>\nDen the next so low i would go &#8230;.always feeling down and out<br \/>\nLiving in the shadow of paranoia &#8230;living in the shadow\u00a0 of fear<\/p>\n<p>My kids I always kept under my wing<br \/>\nAfraid to fully allow anyone else in<br \/>\nCaged them in to scared to let them stray to far<\/p>\n<p>Cause in my life you have left a never healing scar<br \/>\nI never fully knew what love and being in love meant<br \/>\nIt was just the attraction of a flex<br \/>\nAnd the empty feeling of having sex<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I would give in when I didn&#8217;t want to ,cause its all they wanted to do<br \/>\nHave your way with me &#8230;what else is new .cause from a early age it was all I knew<\/p>\n<p>I craved the attention of anyone<br \/>\nI seek the comfort of someone<\/p>\n<p>I would love to have that true sense of feeling<br \/>\nI want nothing more than an everlasting healing<\/p>\n<p>Healing of my mind &#8230;..my body . &#8230;&#8230;my soul<br \/>\nWishing &#8230;&#8230;wishing and wanting just to be whole<\/p>\n<p>You forever took my innocence and in life there is no second chance<br \/>\nI would put on a show smile and make you think everything was bliss<br \/>\nbut how could you know &#8230;&#8230;I never told you this<\/p>\n<p>You always wonder why I was so caged in<br \/>\nbut I never wanted that side of me to be seen<br \/>\nI wanted the memories to forever go away<br \/>\nbut its haunting my mind with each passing day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I`m writing this poem for me and all of you too Those who can relate to what ive been through The others take it how you want but know what I mean Cause I have no space &#8230;..no more space&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":35855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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