Tabitha Christie Poems

She said, “I’m not Pretty”
I don’t have perfect hair
I don’t have straight teeth
I don’t have perfect vision
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He’s a heavy weight champion boxer
He has all the glory and all the fame
But what you don’t know is that
His wife left him because she thought their marriage was just a game
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I see you in the halls
Your that kid that walks with your head down
Your that kid that wears glasses
Your that kid that can never have a smile, but always have a frown
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18 years old, running through a field of wildflowers together in the summer one last time before he leaves for the army.
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When I was born, I got a little box.
Inside this precious box sat life
so delicately.
It was the most beautiful thing I had
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Fear, the state of being afraid.
That feeling you get as if someone is throwing a roundhouse kick right into your side.
The shadow that covers your head that always makes you want to hide.
Trying to decide whether you just had a heart attack or if its just your heart pounding on the jail walls of your inside.
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Its like a dream that I don't want to wake from.
Standing there with him, lights up my life like the sun.
I cherish every moment we are together.
He is my Knight in shining armor.
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She was only 20 at the time.
Not knowing what to do, having shivers go up her spine.
They were going into a depression, her family couldn't support her, so she had to leave them.
Standing on the corner under the streetlight so dark,
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