A Shame Poem by David Harris

A Shame

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Sometimes we grow up with a lie
that we don’t know about,
then the lie bursts, and finally the truth comes out.
It is always the innocent victims
of the lie that get hurt,
never the propitiators of it.
The innocent ones who feel the guilt
when they have done nothing wrong.
They feel ashamed for something
they had no part in.
A dark cloud hangs over them
and questions torment their mind.
They feel the shame
that was never meant for them.
They want to forgive themselves.
Thinking if they had done something different
they might never feel this way.
There is nothing they could have done
the perpetrators of the lie had seen to that.
They can’t turn back the clock
to where it all began,
only try to move forward
and hope that it will never happen again to anyone

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
JoAnn McGrath 29 December 2008

again that darn old past...the one we can not control...even the future is hard to control but still we have the chance given to make it a better one

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