Best Poems Written by Jenny West

As a Child

I learned as a child, how to love, how to hate. 
I choose to love and try not to hate, but some people make it so hard not to hate. 
You all talk about me behind my back, then you expect me to love you as a sister.  
But you were never a real sister.  
I can not love someone who is hugging me with one hand , and the other is 
stabbing me in my back.  
You tell me something in trust and I slip up, but at least I have the balls to 
apologize to you.
Unlike you I have a heart, but this probably  makes no sense to you and I don't 
care.
I may hate to hate but I have no problem with it.  
If you even understood any of my world I think that you would shudder in pain and 
wonder.
You would wonder if.....
But wonder away because I wont tell you. 
Some of you can tell that this is me, what you see is get.
But you can't accept this.
You want a little you, but I'm me so back off. 
Just because you don't have problem not being you, it does not mean that this 
girl will follow you.  
I was your shadow, but now I not.

Copyright © Jenny West | Year Posted 2006