This little girl sits there
waiting for the bus like always
sitting on an old stump beside the dusty road
which makes her choke when people passed by
Bruises are covered with a worn out pink laced dress
as the wind blows against her frail body
the pain upon her face is unbearable
with ripped skin and layered scars from before
Dirt gathers on her old fake leather shoes
as it starts to rain on this dreary day
her long blond hair dripping in water
but her face covers with tears
As she puts her swollen hands to her head
she picks herself up from this world
the place that would always bring her down
and calmly waits for the bus
Her hands try to hold the books for class
though the cuts on her fingers hurt
with pink worn down nail polish
from when she played house with her dolls
Her knees are all scratched up
with a cut that had gone so deep
she has to clean it up herself
with just a band aid as a cover
No one knows the answer
as to how someone could do this to her
she feels so much pain inside
and wonders why they don't say a word
School is her only escape
to the only world she knows
waiting for that beat up bus
even though there is no school
Author notes
Written December 15th, 2004
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aww thats soooo cool there was alot of imagery in it too great job!!! and i can relate alot to it too...
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Lovely Poem
My kind of poem very well written tells a sad haunting story of cruelty and its subsequent suffering
of a young child in the nicest possible way.very well done !!.have a look at"The Waife" I think you'l like it.It's a story poem like yours.Best Wishes and kind regards George ++++ -
when the bus came into the story it was to me a sumbol of how she was waiting for her ride to leave, that she would sit and wait for the bus even though she didn't have to because the bus was her only escape to the life she had, and to bring her to the one place that made her happy. i just made it a little different, like in most cases when people are waiting for the bus, it meens they are waiting to go to school. in this case she will wait there as long as it takes, just as long as it comes. thank you very much for the comment. i'm very pleased with it.
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Hmmm....that was interesting. I wasn't expecting that ending, even though it fits in with the whole mood of the rest of the poem. Nice job on this! It kind of scared me for some reason...
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an excellent poem,, again you make my heart race, n my eyes well, time after time i wish i could write more like you!... your just amazin,, another wonderfull example of how poetry should be done...
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that is amazing. Pure talent. The whole thing brought my defenses down for the end. This is extremely well written and tells a great story!
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this is incredible, vivid and full of details. I really loved it it was soo sad yet so beautiful. I think its perfect.
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wow...that all i can say right now after reading that...migosh. the ending totally caught me off guard, and it just added to the poem's sadness. this made me so sad...wow, amazing write. woah, i cant get over this
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the ending really surprised me. I am nearly crying. So vivid, so imaginative. An excellent, yet unusually sad poem. I feel so horrible right now. I can't even explain it with words. This just amazed me, and nothing short of that.
~CA
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