Shara Allen Poet I do not know?

16 Looking Back At 15

16 looking back at 15
Looking into a glass staring back at me, my eyes, my lips, and my face beautiful I see. Yet 
different staring back at me.

Conscious of the events that got me here, discipline, go Getta staring back at me. Sixteen 
years but yet I see when I was 4, 5, and then three.

Courageous yet scared of the life I’m trying to make. Picking up mistakes that were part of 
my fate.

I look back College bound I see. I need to get focused, for the years keep leaving me.

Educated sista, Lonely but not alone. Letting friends from my past wonder on their own.
 
Who is this young women I see fifteen left behind on the 10th of July.
That’s me a reflection of last year’s tears staring back at me… See I’m healed from the pain 
that has worn down on me.

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Beata Agustin March 19, 2026 at 9:34 PM Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.

Poet Destroyer A March 10, 2016 at 12:13 PM awesome poem, Shara. LINDA

Skat A July 19, 2015 at 4:45 PM SHARA, Stopped by to say hello, I enjoyed reading your poem today. FOREVER <3 SKAT

Dustin Davies March 10, 2009 at 10:12 PM Very cool way of looking at the past. I like this a lot!