Giving Up Poem by Doug Bri

Giving she said was the stupid mans way out.
Pushing me to get out of bed to keep going to school
Keep getting my good grades, long nights, longer days
SAT scores came in.

Packing up, Moving out
Going to college, freaking out believing i can take on the world
How wrong i was. But you kept calling me telling me not to give up.
Giving up was the reason people are confortible living at the bottom.

Graduation day and i don't think i can make it through this day.
Giving the speech is one thing but seeing you sit in the few first rows is another.

While everyone gave up and turned around you stood by me holding me down.
Pushing me and pushing me until i couldn't go no more.
I broke down and you scolded me telling me that i could be anything i wanted to be.
Not to be like my alcoholic dad but to be something better then that...

Thats why i know the words your going to say.

Its the last day. And giving up is not the option today...