The Truth I Live

Born a mistake in your eyes,
made to grow believing your lies.

Time goes on but my pain does grow,
why I am here nobody knows.

Everything I touch burns to the ground,
even my loved ones I can not keep around.

Torn on the inside by the truth that is me,
and always feeling nothing I will be.

Cause if the one who made me hates me so,
then so does the world and now I know.

I know I am a joke, a mistake, a lie,
and this is the truth I live with till the day I die.

By: Angela Holcomb
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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June 25, 2016 at 11:31 PM
ANGELA, enjoyed reading your poem, thank you for sharing your thoughts through words. *SKAT*
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July 11, 2011 at 4:27 AM
Congratulations on your win Angela in Brian Strand's "Poeta" contest. Love, Carol
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July 1, 2011 at 6:19 PM
Very powerful poem and you expressed the truth of it very well.
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