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They Will Be Cruel

They will be cruel 
They think they overrule 
Over every girl and boy
And try to control them like a type of puppet or toy

Some think that’s cool
To use your emotions as a tool
To get in your head
And make you cry as it is said

But don’t let them get to you
Because if you do
You will fall into the trap that they have set
And there will you go along with your self esteem that you have tried so hard to get

So just ignore them they are nothing at all
They are nothing so don’t let them make you fall

Copyright © Katresa Durham | Year Posted 2010


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Sorry

I am sorry for not being there on the night of your show 
The biggest night of one’s true life
I am sorry I missed that big game
The one you say you were there to play
That night I’m sorry when I wasn’t there to go on tour 
The tour of your life
I am sorry I missed the biggest day
Of that same day you married him
But all this I say sorry for
I really watched up by heaven’s door
So when I say I’m sorry 
I really mean
I am sorry for not saying anything when I was dying

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This Man Was Loyal ,This Man Was Honor

He had loyalty
He had honor
He had me 
And a daughter

But being the man he was
With pride and good will
He gave himself up
To the stars and stripes
 
I remember him saying
Don’t worry I’ll be fine
And he would look away 
And I’d be crying

He gave me his word that he would be back
He wanted to be a firefighter after the war
But god had other plans
And a notice came to my door

Saying 

He had loyalty
He had honor
To the wife
And to the daughter

He said before he was shot 
To give this to you
It’s not much
But it will do

He loves you both
And wants you to remember him 
So with that
I give you this

And inside the package that came with the letter
Was a plaque that read
This man was loyal
This man was honor

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Life Is Like a Narrow Passageway

Life is like a narrow passageway
You go through it and you don’t know where it ends
Just like you go through life and you don’t know when it’s your time unless it hits you
Although there is light at the end 
There is always hope 
There is help 
And there is always someone there waiting for you
Life is like a narrow passageway
You go through
And that’s your life
Till you find the light
There are turns and fallbacks
There are mistakes and mishaps
But most of all there is always something with you
There is always God beside you walking with you to pick you up when you fall

Copyright © Katresa Durham | Year Posted 2010

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Prayers Are Like a Message

Prayers are like a message
You send them to someone who can take care of it for you
But if you don’t write the message no one can help you
I have learned prayers since I was born
Every night I say a pray

These 4 corners on my bed 
These 4 angels over head
Mathew mark Luke and john 
This is the bed that I lay on
And If I die before I wake 
I pray the lord my soul to take

And then I add stuff to it after that 
And then at the dinner table when I was little I would say this prayer

God is good
God is great 
Let us thank him for our food
Bow our heads 
We must be fed
Give us lord 
Our daily bread
Amen 
God bless

The when I used to go to this church camp which last year was my last year
We would make up these prayer songs before a meal.
One of them was 

God is good
God is great
God he gave us chocolate cake 
He is a righteous dude
He gave us food
Ruba dub dub 
Three men in a tub
(Father, son, and Holy Spirit)
Thank you god for this great grub 
Amen amen amen amen

So prayers are a big part of my life and have been for a very long time and always will be

Copyright © Katresa Durham | Year Posted 2010


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Lights Out

Darkness fills this place 
The hate covers my heart 
When will love return to this place I loved
When will hate leave this place that was adored
Why must we turn them off?
And leave the anger to linger
Why must we turn off the items that shine in this place
To make it brighter
Why must we have hate and anger and pain and suffering?
Why must we turn off the lights to this place that we love?
And let the hatred stay and the play that it lays
Why must we not turn on the light to let it fade away?
And be happy once more
Why?
Why must we have lights out?

Copyright © Katresa Durham | Year Posted 2010

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Mellow Is the For Today

The smell of morning dew 
The mist in my hair 
As I wake form my midnights slumber 
To greet the mellow day

I walk out of my tent to greet the lake 
To wash the morning look off my face                                            
The sound of the babbling brook feels me with peace 
As the cool crisp waters tingle my ears

The rugged mountains say hello                                                                       
As the morning birds do also
The rugged mountains would tremble the lake 
As if to give it a warm grip handshake
Chirp Chirp is what the birds would say
To greet me in their mannerly way

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Betraying Is What She Is Called To Do

She hides her face in the darkness
She doesn’t dare go near the crowd
Her face would be disowned
Her only friend is the betrayal cloud

The one that reminds her of what she did
Of how she can never go back to the life that she had
Reminds her how everyone knows or how she thinks they do
Reminds her of the pain that she brought upon herself that can never be taken away

She thinks other people know 
But they don’t
She hides herself
So they won’t

She reminds herself not to take a step away from the darkness
She reminds herself that she has nowhere to go
She had a family not anymore
Her betrayal kicked her right out the door

Her betrayal is not of the usual sort
But of the dark kind 
Where people report
She hides herself so no one will know

That little Susie was the one 
Who not only betrayed her family by leaving them
Because of the way everyone was always violent and drunk 
But she killed them too

Now little miss Susie
Of the age eight
Was known to be a cheerful girl
In each little blonde curl

But in her heart was a black heart
That hated everything 
Everything that was violent and drunk
So she feels she has to kill them because no one else will

So her betrayal if you will
Is her duty 
She lives to do it 
To kill the evil

And if it means betraying her life of what seemed like joy
That she wanted to have
To at least pretend like she was happy
She’ll give it up for doing her duty
Betrayal is her name
Betrayal is her job
Betraying is what she is called to do

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True Colors

An angry sister who walks away
A sad brothers who turns his back
Me, confused, with mixed emotions, and blown up
Try to say what I feel
Try to show my true colors of red and blue
I try to talk and cry 
I try to scream and yell 
But I keep all that inside
But I turn around and when nobody is their
Then you know my true colors show

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Sixteenhood

Childhood is when I believed that if I stared at something long enough my eyes would get 
stuck that way
The feeling of uncertainty but complete and freedom and fun
Childhood was the never ending kisses from grandma and saying that I could help her make 
cookies and the sweet smell of success and being able to halve milk with them
Childhood id best friends that never grew old of playing and letting their imagination be free 
of any trapped door
Childhood was never being made fun of or if someone laughed you, you didn’t care and 
would laugh back
Childhood is if you got in trouble and crying fits would come then leave after you got a hug
Childhood was time outs and spankings and then a stern talking to when you were done
Sixteen hood is using common sense and thinking before you speak and do
Sixteen hood id letting you drive and being responsible for another life and your own
 Sixteen hood id being halfway done with high school and facing the facts that come with 
growing up
Sixteen hood is a ray of laughter that you get from the rising sun with classmates 
Sixteen hood is remembering what childhood is and was but knowing what growing up in 
sixteen hood means

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