Growing ----Year-----To----Fear
GROWING YEAR BY FEAR
By one I was done
I didn’t know what to do at two
Believe me, I was far from free at three
Four was a bore
I didn’t wish to survive at five
I was always sick at six
I was ready for heaven at seven
I learned how to astronomically hate at eight
Then at nine I took to wine
I was repulsed by most men at ten
I learned there is a Hell and a Heaven at eleven
Into my life no one cared to delve at 12
ain’t much I hadn’t seen by thirteen
Times I didn’t cause havoc were lean at fourteen
The universe turned mean at fifteen
And I was mentally sick at sixteen
I O.D.’d and it was Heaven I swear to have seen at seventeen
At eight I was finally set free and ran with every degenerate denigrated by disgust and
dehydration the rich chose to ignore
And at nineteen….well, need I say more?
© 2011.…Phreepoetree
Copyright © Jeffry Cohan | Year Posted 2011
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