Poetry dug from my trash bin. [[Featured in Random Reading List by @WattpadPoetry]]
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AWARDS under Poetry Category:
🥇 1st Place, Sunflower Awards 2019
🥈 2nd Place, The Water Awards 2019
🥈 2nd Place, Creative Awards 2019|First Edition
🥈 2nd...
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This is a game we used to play in childhood --
us crying out for our mother's warm milk, to be sterilized
for a change of diapers, that perfect fit that wouldn't fall and trip us,
for quiet to come, the hush of a thousand melodies lulling us to sleep,
for love.
This is a game we used to play in kindergarten --
us with our lunch boxes only to be taken away by bullies who wait by the trees, by the playground
for a mother's embrace.
us with our bruised knees, feelings l a i d o u t in the clinic where a nurse will take away the pain with a swab and
a kiss.
This a game we used to play in school --
for friends to flock around us for people to call us names at midnight,
send us to detention if we don't behave well enough
gives us marks for performances to make it
to the next level.
This is a game we used to play at work --
for people to make us coffee, for that gold watch, pink slip, that needed vacation,
for a break.
***** Everyone knows this game:
kids waiting for presents, toys too expensive to be bought
teenagers waiting for that right age to come, to be able to drink, drive, gamble
parents waiting for their children to grow up, come home before midnight
The lover makes the same plea
The old for their skin to age
For beauty to pass into another life
Even books wait to be read, food to be eaten
And the trees wait for the changing of seasons, as we wait for the changing
of our souls.
*********************** A/N: Just in case anybody is wondering why there is a II after Waiting and there is no first poem in this collection. There will be none as I am not publishing it (it's really cringy and to be honest I don't know where that collection went, probably in the garbage).
This second poem with the same title has no relation or it's not a continuation of the first and can be a stand-alone piece. ***********************