Could This Be Me? Poem by April Swanson

I wish to know the truth,
The truth of life.

How to be perfect,
What’s wrong, what’s right.

Not to disobey,
To curse or lie.
To cheat, to steal, to hurt, to cry.

To not have emotions that scars the heart.
To not crumble and fall apart.

To fail at a goal I’d wished to succeed.
Because I had believed in me.

To let my pride be broken down.
And let all the pain in, not out.

To let sin lead me on a path.
To hope that love would bring me back.

To know that all these things are true…
Could this be me, could this be you?