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I come from

May 2, 2013
By Basspulse BRONZE, Lake Elmo, Minnesota
Basspulse BRONZE, Lake Elmo, Minnesota
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Favorite Quote:
Live for the moment not by the past


I come from no where
A daughter to a faceless mother, enslaved to her dead soldier
When the leaves left their outstretched mothers hands
And white tears fell from the crying sky
the the flowers woke from their slumber
Faces and places distorted memories ,
No where to call "oh sweet home"
A second chance, oh I thought so
A mother with no babes ,oh how she longed
Now a keeper of my physique
Washington
Oregon
Virginia
Maine
Across the pacific,
Subsequent to his sails bearing the eagle
Annuil Ceopis, the anchor was his direction
Time in and time out
8 months slave to deep blue sea
2 months stranger to the acreage
To him she was consort
Blind to her masquerade
Beneath the translucent skin you could almost see the disease coarsening through her veins consuming all sanity
Now who am I
I am the child born from the ashes of unfortunate fate
Shot down to only grow wings
The places the faces
The hate and betray
Against the current of voices so loud
I made it
Where am I from .?
No where yet everywhere ....


The author's comments:
My poem is about my struggle growing up going in foster care and being adopted by a family in the military and moving a lot . Ultimately my poem expresses the many things I have overcome and how that did not stop me from being the strong independent woman I am today.

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