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Poetry: Being trapped

by Kristin Hurtig

Created on: August 06, 2011   Last Updated: August 07, 2011

Being trapped

she is trapped,
she was married young,
pregnant at 18,
three more kids after that,
she never thought she'd feel trapped,
trapped in a life that she didn't really want,
she got caught up in another life,
she didn't realize it would last,
she can't get out of her life now,
or not as easily as one would think,
so much to think about,
others to think about,
living one life, wanting another,
scared, confusion,
does not what to think or do,
so she just lives, goes on from one day to the next,
from another to another,
watching them fall in love with her,
she falling in love with them,
knowing it will not last,
watching them leave,
because they found another,
who can give them more,
so here there she remains,
trapped...

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