Learning to love
To all parents, love your children and they shall learn to love.
Lying in my crib,
all I saw
was smudges on the wall.
Nurturing I did not get.
No toys to play with...
just nothingness.
Screams I heard in the night,
made me squirm in my slumber.
Afraid to voice my fright.
I learned to suck my thumb.
I learned not to cry,
even though I tried.
To feel pain from his hands...
do you understand?
As I grew up,
I was so screwed up.
Had so many fears,
yet I couldn't shed any tears.
I was invisible,
and life was incredible,
in my own little world.
A place that wasn't cruel.
Most of my life,
I was ridiculed.
Had so many fights...
I just wanted to be heard.
I protected myself,
from prying minds.
By not asking for help,
and being so unkind.
All the pain I held in,
to my surprise, was such a sin.
I took my first feeble step...
and learned to accept,
that I am loved...
from the one who lives above.
I now can cry,
the tears I kept inside.
I now have no fears,
of the last 45 years.
Lying in my crib,
all I saw
was smudges on the wall.
Nurturing I did not get.
No toys to play with...
just nothingness.
Screams I heard in the night,
made me squirm in my slumber.
Afraid to voice my fright.
I learned to suck my thumb.
I learned not to cry,
even though I tried.
To feel pain from his hands...
do you understand?
As I grew up,
I was so screwed up.
Had so many fears,
yet I couldn't shed any tears.
I was invisible,
and life was incredible,
in my own little world.
A place that wasn't cruel.
Most of my life,
I was ridiculed.
Had so many fights...
I just wanted to be heard.
I protected myself,
from prying minds.
By not asking for help,
and being so unkind.
All the pain I held in,
to my surprise, was such a sin.
I took my first feeble step...
and learned to accept,
that I am loved...
from the one who lives above.
I now can cry,
the tears I kept inside.
I now have no fears,
of the last 45 years.
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