Lesson I Have Learned During My Tough Times… Poem by Evevona Plummer

Lesson I Have Learned During My Tough Times…



The lesson that I’ve learned is that life is indeed tough. I’ve learned to stand and be strong even when I feel devoid of strength. I’ve learned to love myself even when others try to make
me feel unloved. I’ve learned that I’m precious and priceless simply because I’m one of God’s children; so as you can see my is no bed of roses. However; I’d like to share my life story of how I overcame and will always continue to overcome.

You see my journey of seemingly endless despair began in1st grade. With a bully name “papooses” who would say “you’re fat and ugly and no one wants you.” That made me feel like trash, unloved, and unimportant. As matter of fact I began to ask myself “why? ” “why would they say you’re fat and ugly.” Ultimately I’d cry myself to sleep hope things would get better.

When I was 15th teen I lost my mother. Before she died I would always take care of her everyday. Giving up my childhood up to take care of her. Mean-while dealing with presser of growing up too fast. My feelings when she died made me feel abandoned, alone, sad, angry, had hate in my heart and most if all unloved. No one knew how I felt inside or what was running up and down my head. The more I held my feelings in the more I hurt the most. Matter of fact the more hurt I had I turn the hurt that I felt on the others who care the most you can say. At the time I didn’t feel good enough to do something with myself or do what I love and that was “ singing and writing”. That’s what I loved the most, and I that’s what kept my sanity.

After my mother died my grades started to slip “oh when I mean slip I mean slip”. I wanted to give up didn’t no where to turn. I felt like life hated me so bad, school was so hard for me. It’s was so hard to understand. I was in the 8th grade feeling like a bad student who didn’t won’t to learn and trapped. Can’t move to a new life or you can say a higher grade. When I would sit in class I didn’t understand a damn thing. Then No More Victims came along a change my whole world around when it felt like everything was up side down. They helped me find my courage to love myself and what Ms. Gambrell (who is the C.E.O of NMVI) told me “because you exist makes you priceless and you absolutely precious.” So I carry that with for the rest of my life.
To conclude this journey of my dreadful problems I had in life. Nevertheless all the things that I thought that would put me down and I all the people that said I wasn’t going to be any thing. I decided to prove them wrong and find my voice; not what someone think is mine my own. All the bumps, scratches and bruises I had. “I finally came out all polish and shine (branded new) ”…

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Milica Franchi De Luri 26 July 2009

Hi Evavona! You had some tough times in you life, but you came above it, and that is good.Your poems have depth and felling.........keep on writing

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