My First Poem

On the 22 August 2000 I wrote my very first poem - I write predominantly in rhyme and there was a period of about 3 - 4 years when I wrote and wrote and wrote some more....  I had found my way of giving voice to the depth of pain that I was healing...

This was the first one...

If I could find the words to rhyme
My poetry would flow
And then I would tell all the world
Of places that I go

I'd tell you all how sad I feel
That I was not enough
To those that I thought loved me
But who taught me to be tough

I would tell you of the times I cry
Today when thoughts do spring
Into my mind the echoes heard
Of voices saying things

They say that I don't do it right...
That I will never do
That really who do I think I am
to walk alongside of you

They needed me to be their pet
to say and do and feel
the things that were okay with them
but for me that were not real

Today I choose to walk the road
That God within has shown
The path has rocks, and twists and turns
But indeed it is my own!!