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509th Weekly Poetry Contest winner: Free Minds Wonder

by Delasia Vanterpool

They say the past stays in the past for a reason.
Thinking far back will be committing Treason.
You swore an oath to protect yourself.
Your own well being.
To keep yourself out of harm's way.
               But

 A Free Mind Wonders
   Even to this day.

I walk in the streets like a MAN

 Because I was nourished by his
         Right.            Hand.
A mothers love never carried me.     
            A Free Mind Wonders
       What would it be like as a whole?
I am only half of what I am meant to be.
My childhood fades away into oblivion.
 

                    Trapped.
In Hatred. Bewilderment. Guilt. Envy.
                     Poison
          Filters my blood stream.
      I laugh believing this is the end.

How could you watch someone you love perish?

For years I’ve been trying to grasp the understanding of abandonment.

               But I never came to any conclusions.

       When I was a little girl all I ever wanted was a family.

               I cried until Tears weren’t enough.

     I grew depressed until I was NOT immune to depression any longer.

"I slept outside for hours on a cold bench right next to the homeless, until I grew tired of being alone."
 

From that point on I knew you wouldn’t come for me.

             A Child’s song is a Dove’s Cry

                              But

Not even my heart could witness how much I love you.

                     Free Minds Wonder

How to become a better person than the one that left them behind.

                         I Am Not Alone.

       For the Little Black Girl in me has learnt
                  How to fly all on her own.

 

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