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Don't Be The Way You Are

June 10, 2010
By Cassie PLATINUM, Delisle, Other
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Don't be the way you are
i watch you sleep
i watch you grow
but how i didn't know
you'd be like this
i must insist
you get some help
for your own self
i can't stand to watch you sleep anymore
for one day,
you won't wake up
and then i will have no one.

© Jenna H., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:
this poem is for a friend of mine who is having lots of troubles with the guys in our class
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