Short Sad Life Poems

Is it just me or are our dinners getting smaller?...

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Living in the world
But not actually there
I can't accept it....

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A sleepover 
Hooray
My sister and I
We pack light
a small bag each...

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It's been 3 days
I am out of fresh clothes
I miss my toys
Can I go back now?...

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When are we going home we ask
you are not
When are we leaving?
you are not
this is hell...

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My sisters afraid of bees
So why is it
she's outside
forced to stand in a patch of clover
Why?...

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I thought 
I‘ve written a good poem

But reading the final verse
I have written a sad life, my life...

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at school one day
a woman came
a stranger with a car
we got inside so happily
not knowing what awaited...

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we arrived at the building
so big, so grey
inside was our father
he told us quite simply, 
you are going away...

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the new house is good
until I mess up
and then come the lines
I will not
I shall not
I will not
I shall not...

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So sad your life has been
I can see behind your sheepish grin
Wish I could make you truly happy
Whatever that is….....

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into our life another came
and she begat a younger one
who stole away the one we loved
and left us all so saddened...

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Ham and cheese
That's it
Every day for a summer
Ham. And. Cheese
eventually I hid the ham
and only ate the cheese...

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I aint never had alot of money or good fortune.But I always had life.Be happy or be sad,life 
goes on.So i choose to be happy....

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ah, eggbert, oh speedy one
you are my only friend
all the other games
were always asking for player 2
but who needs a player 2?...

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I took a thing that wasn't mine
I knew it was wrong but I did it anyway
an alarm is installed
it shrilly screams whenever the door is opened...

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Apparently sleepover
Does not mean what I thought
Ah, if only I brought more clothes
If only I got my books
If only I could keep what was mine...

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Pequa, my love, the only comfort I have
a tiny plush donkey i take everywhere
at school he is found
at home, taken away
i haven't seen him since...

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At three years old my parents divorced
Father got full custody
Mother, visitation rights
My sister and I were too young 
yet still we understood...

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Forty Lords a'leaping,
Forty bugs a'creeping
Forty forty year-olds,
With forty sad life tales.
Forty forty forty year-olds,
With their forty ales....

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we arrive at a house
we are brought to the basement
a large room full of toys
next door, a bedroom
you will stay here the adults say
this is heaven...

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My face is purple
As I hold my breath
Waiting for the next moment
That I may see you
I cut off my being
Because life without you
Is not life at all...

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the circus, hooray
but I do not go
instead I am locked away
with only a pot to pee in
I escape through the window to play in the yard
a permanent mark on my record...

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A temper tantrum
the adults don't care
they stick me in a corner and tell me to wait
I wait, until the sun has gone down
you may go to bed now
one of many late nights...

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Trampoline tickle fight
the older girls should have listened
I cried stop
they did not
And yet here I am on the porch
Wet bottom towards the world
begging for forgiveness?...

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