Resent-date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 22:35:46 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 22:56:30 -0400 Resent-from: seaQuest-ff-request@escapenet.org From: Kathleen Wolenczak Subject: (sQ-ff) Lucas Poem Resent-sender: seaQuest-ff-request@escapenet.org To: FF-List Reply-to: seaQuest-ff@escapenet.org X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1161 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/250 X-Loop: seaQuest-ff@stgenesis.org X-Proc-type: 3 We don't get nearly enough poetry here, and the list's been so dead I thought I might as well make my contribution. K.W. Lucas Poem When I was but a child, eager and new, no one could tell, the horror I was living through. Belittling and fights, and harrowing, pain-filled nights, marked my young life. I grew up alone, but my light always shone, blue eyes, a smile, a clever excuse. "I fell down" "I tripped" "Our Menora dripped" The burns, the scars, the stupid kid. I grew tall alone, the light flickered out, the nights were my hell, and the voices cried out. "You're stupid!!" "You're worthless!!" "You're no good at all!!" I could no longer run and hide down the hall. My mind was my enemy, my pain was within, it couldn't be stopped, no matter what was my sin. My tears were my companions, my ties were cut off, I could never let them in. Now I'm a young man, handsome and tall, My parents are gone now, my tears still are all. I'm my only friend, I'll be here 'till the end, until then I'm alone, and it will _never_ end. I cried for a mother, I searched for a Dad, no wonder now I'm sick, lonely, and sad. I can't be alone now, not after all that's been, I can't be turned away now, not now that I'm letting them in. I cry twice a day now, good reason or no, I simply cry now, for a compainion, a friend. Copyright Kathleen Brown *********************** "The cure for everything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea." ~Isak Dinesen http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/4286/ ---Fan-Fic page. http://www.stgenesis.org/~kw / kw@escapenet.org ---------------------------------------- seaQuest-ff-request@stgenesis.org Subject: unsubscribe