You Forget
By: Taylor Donnelly
You say i don't know what its like to bleed
You forget I'm a women
You say i don't know war
You forget I'm in high school
You say i have not learned
You forget how to count without your cellphones calculate or write without your computers word processor
You say i am too young to understand
When do i get to tell you your too old to understand
I do admit i have not lived as long as you have
But that means i have less biased
My mind not so jaded by anger and propaganda
You say i do not know death
But friends foolish and headstrong have found a wheel to pull left and right
I cried as did my peers, my friends
You say i don't know what I'm going to do with my life
You forget I'm alive
Is that not enough
I want to stumble and find my way as you were able to
You say I've never been a mother
That maybe so
But I've loved like one
Giving birth to ideas, love, and hope
Seeing them wilt and die
Barring them young and with a sad heavy heart as they pass before their time
I blame these hormones
For not allowing me to please clearly on raw subjects without becoming impassioned and getting that lump scratching at my throat.
I want to talk but every talk because an argument, i cant find the words to tell your opinionated mind what my opinionated mind thinks
You say i don't know what its like to bleed
You forget I'm a women
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
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