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Its More Than You Think

An adult who can’t see through an eyes of a child.
                              A baby who has not yet learned her ABC’s.
                              A teenager who is 16 going on 21.
                              A mother who is in need of desperate help.
                              A father who is constantly in and out of her life.
                              A small circle closing in on her like a crowd closing in on a fight.
                              A sophisticated caterpillar who is emerge like a butterfly.
                              A family full of deep dark explosive heartbreaking secrets.
                              A girl who so bad wants to let her voice be known
                              But does not know where to start, where to end.
                              With sorrow draining her deep within.
                              No matter how many times she tell this story. 
                              No matter how many times you hear her story.
                              You will never understand.
                              You will never understand what she goes through.
                              What it takes to live her life.
                              What it takes to put a smile on her face.
                              What it takes to have a dream you are forced to not live.
                              What it takes to write this.
                              And what it takes to have a heart with a beat that can no longer beat.

Copyright © Ogechi Okwologu | Year Posted 2012

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Date: 1/10/2012 12:29:00 PM

Beautiful and touching Ogechi,thank you for sharing it.- love Anne-Lise
Date: 1/10/2012 12:11:00 PM

I enjoyed reading your poetry this afternoon Ogechi. I hope to be able to read a lot more of your writing in this new year of 2012. Love, Carol

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