Finally time to wake up, to take flight
To make a decision; to step down or fight.
To decide if she can, and if she has the might.
Which choice will not matter, which one can be right?
"It's time now to leave you," she says with a sigh.
She cannot say how much she loathes the goodbye.
"I'll see you again," though she does hate to lie,
And she leaves quickly so she won't see them cry.
She's wounded herself, and all that she cares for.
She bites back a tear as she closes the door.
No place to call home now, the world to explore.
The life that she once called her own is no more.
Yet, beneath the sadness, her hope is still strong.
I wish I could tell her she's horribly wrong.
To somehow show her where she knows she belongs.
She's going astray, and has been all along.
Somehow, she knows in her own special way,
A hundred new problems will come with the day.
But for now she will push aside all the dismay,
And hope very much that she will be okay.
She wakes up, and shakes off the terrible dream.
Sees where she is, and almost starts to scream:
She's home, and she's safe, there's nothing to redeem.
She realises leaving would have been too extreme.
She won't need to leave, and she won't need to fight,
Because everything is and always has been right.
She shakes off the pain from another long night,
And sets what she needs to acheive in her sight.
Author notes
Okay, I have no clue where this poem came from, but it is the first thing more than a stanza long my muse has supplied me with, so I took it and ran. I kind of like it, and if it is really hard to understand (because I had to read it to get it) I'm horribly sorry. Basically, this girl is dreaming she ran away because of how terrible she thinks her life is, and somehow, her more sensible side is telling the reader the dream. When she wakes up, she realizes how much worse her life could be, how much worse she could make it, and decides to be happy with what she has. You may have interpreted it differently though.
You seriously have no clue how happy I am to have finally been able to write something.
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Actually this is a great poem. At first I wondered what is going on and who is it she's leaving but then near the ending I understood.
It made me pause and think of my life too, guess it could have been worse if I had a different path. Very nice write and it is very inspiring.
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This is absolutely brilliant! You truly are the most amazingly talented poet. This creation really highlights something that alot of kids go through, this should be published in a book of poetry for children or something because there's such an amazing lesson to be learnt from these lines. On a more technical note
Your lines/stanza's flow beautifully, I love your rhyme and the story you weave!
Thank you for sharing this,
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i like it. It just makes u think when u think to yourself my life is so bad you know that you are better off then lots of people in the world just by having a roof over your head.
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Nice..
I enjoyed reading this. It was a little confusing in one or two parts, but when I read it I kinda got the feeling that she was leaving someone, and moving on with her life and she thought it was the right step in the right direction. But once I read the author notes, it all clicked into place. Lol Great write though! Bravo!
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Impressive i like this very much i would hate to have a nightmare like that but at the same time i know there will be a time for me to leave this place i call home soon
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i like thiis.
and im impressed that you take on the challenge of rhyming so often.
its not easy to make things sound like they flow, while imposing a structure on them, but youve managed to do this.
and i like this poem because its really universal... i know people read into things way too much, but it could definitely be about many other things than a struggling girl.
overall... very well done. applause abounds.
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