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Why Try

December 15, 2009
By Anonymous

Why Should I try when I get looked over?

I tried in the beginning, but you looked past me at others.

You say you want to pay attention to those who improve and want to learn.

I was willing to learn, but you never tried to teach.

I cannot improve if you don't teach.

Now I am discouraged.

Just another forgotten person taking up space in lane one.

I am left wondering why should I try if you won't.

The author's comments:
I was inspired to write this poem because I felt the swim coach has been ignoring me and some others at practice and paying attention more to these other people so I wrote this about how I feel about the situation.

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