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Created on: July 05, 2008
It's not so bad to want, and I'm not always wrong.
I know I'm a good person, and I know to stay strong.
I don't always deserve this, but I know I'm a wreck.
And this trail of tears is more painful than death.
The world doesn't need another daughter, and that's that hardest thing I've ever had to write. So please, please, don't bring me back as a daughter in my next life.
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Poetry: Broken & lost
by D Turner
My life is a shell
Of what I thought it would be
It's controlled by others
And not by me
Trapped in a world
Where I have no place
Going through this life
Her heart is lost and broken
She listens to the whispered lies
She lets them tear her open
Hope and
The Battle
Not all wars are fought and won
On a battlefield's bloody plain.
Not all enemies are flesh and blood
Who cause
BITS AND PIECES
Seconds before the end,
like just before an earthquake,
a dog howled and a flock of seagulls
flew from above
She wanders, lost and reeling
In a place she once called home
She wonders why she's feeling
So unloved, so alone
She has a loving
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