Trust... Trust is essential
it's kind of an elemental thing
in these situations
Trust implies faith and faith..
faith implies that the lies believed
have meaning or seem to...
But Trust is essential in these situations
Illegal to tell me about all the ways to protect myself
from the disease that we all suffer from as children
you know W.2B.G (wanting to be grown)
When we won't listen to the lessons of our parents
achieved through the pain they have known
You know that I will suffer this and still you don't protect me
you neglect me with outrageous bureaucratic mess
about how NOT telling me about birth control and condoms
will make my desire less
you will only fund the programs that will help me for free
if they promise to only preach abstinence to me
if they promise to not tell me the true particulars
even though you know telling me not to do it
will only make the urge bigger
So I do what I do... do what I must
the disease taking over before I am armed to fight
"I know I am grown. I know I am right"
So he says he likes me
Says I am pretty
Says we are both grown
lets do what the adults do
And...
Trust is essential
it's kind of an elemental thing
in these situations
Trust implies faith and faith..
faith implies that the lies believed
have meaning or seem to...
So now I'm 3 weeks pregnant and a freshman in high school
my momma can't even afford to raise me
and here I am bringing her another baby
I have straight A's
on the road to success, but you trusted me
and I failed my first test
and now the future that could have been
the future that could be, is about to be re-written
instead of going down in history
A mistake I made
from the game you played
but now the decision is on me...
my body
my life
my body
and I choose to make something of my life
I choose to correct the mistake you allowed me to make
I choose to not bring in life that will always be a mistake to me
I choose to be selfishly free though no longer innocent
and marked I am through this fire I've been
But I choose to win
I choose to not carry a responsibility for which I am not ready
I choose to bare this burden which I will always carry
and no matter the steps I take will always be heavy
and you... you have to trust me
my body, my right, my life, I choose....
my weight I carry, the burden I will never lose...
and you...have to trust me
like you did when you didn't prepare me for the disease
didn't pass along the knowledge you knew I'd need
trust me like you did when you said "do as I say, not as I do."
truts me like you did from that impeccable view
from inside that glass house...
or maybe it was faith all the while
that your God was guiding things along...
well that stills means now you have to trust...
trust that He has put me right where I belong
that I stand as His product and no matter what
His influence moves me
and He sees and forgives just as He teaches these lessons
called life that we must live
and this is my lesson,
no matter what I decide to do
this is my lesson,
nothing to do with you
my lesson
if you taught me the things I needed you to
I bet there would be less sleep for you to lose
because you'd be able to trust and have faith
in my God given right to choose
and we all know you will have to trust...
have faith...
in situations like this
In-Fin-Ite aka WISER
Copyright 2007 All Rights Reserved
Author notes
My mother, God rest her soul, if she taught me nothing else about being a parent is that "you have to let your child make his/her own choices" and the best way you can find peace with that is to "teach them what you know that will help them. if you get stuck on 'I know what's better, do as I say not as I do' all you will do is make a) a drone incapable of make his/her own decisions or a person determined to do what he/she wants no matter the cost."
The government and these groups want to act as the nations parents, but don't want to teach the "children" what they need to know. If you trust me/them to survive without that knowledge then you have to trust the outcome. The world revolves on a singular fact - for every action a reaction.
Telling some one not to do something, makes them want to do it. Telling some one the out come of some things and different ways to prevent it, makes them think twice before doing it.
They stopped teaching sex ed and started teaching abstinence and now 14 year old girls think it's okay to give oral to little boys because "it's not sex, so I'm still a virgin, so it's okay."
I guess this is where the faith comes in....
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Comments
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You make an excellent point about sex education.
The poem itself- well written. Could benefit from a little more rhythm and rhyme in the first few stanzas. My favorite part was:
"like you did when you didn't prepare me for the disease
didn't pass along the knowledge you knew I'd need
trust me like you did when you said "do as I say, not as I do."
truts me like you did from that impeccable view
from inside that glass house..."
I like the repeating theme of trust. Thank you for submitting this and letting me read it. Well done.
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