My Life

The path I took I did not choose but mother said that I would lose For the boy I loved she did not like so she made me take another path I was just sixteen and a happy girl knew very little of the outside world So when my mother spoke to me I listened to what she said you see A man came by and shattered my world said to mom I'm going to marry that girl Mom and this fellow they both had a plan ten days later had me married to this man Always so lonely for the true love I had lost my children grew up not knowing the cost The tears that I shed when they couldn't see still yearning for my love that never could to be But now I am happy and have no more strife and waiting for another to come into my life Read my poem, To My First Born