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A man yells at a woman While a boy watches His language is ****** and simple, out of anger He doesn't have the words But he tries his best to apologize She doesn't care, or understand They're so different Takes off his shoes and suit While she finishes dinner Neither knowing the other's struggles A question of empathy A boy does not recognize the problem Still clinging to youth He sees his parents in one way They are his guides to the unfamiliar He's been learning all the while Though not realizing what happened He saw the actions and heard the words While the mirrors inside his head replicate A boy grows up now escaping youth He sees the world much like he did as a boy Yet he learned from the best The good and the bad, he got it all Nature and nurture, a simple debate? While the feelings inside scream Trying to be heard amongst the pain He wants to be different.
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 3:08 PM UTC
Far from the Tree
A man yells at a woman While a boy watches His language is ****** and simple, out of anger He doesn't have the words But he tries his best to apologize She doesn't care, or understand They're so different Takes off his shoes and suit While she finishes dinner Neither knowing the other's struggles A question of empathy A boy does not recognize the problem Still clinging to youth He sees his parents in one way They are his guides to the unfamiliar He's been learning all the while Though not realizing what happened He saw the actions and heard the words While the mirrors inside his head replicate A boy grows up now escaping youth He sees the world much like he did as a boy Yet he learned from the best The good and the bad, he got it all Nature and nurture, a simple debate? While the feelings inside scream Trying to be heard amongst the pain He wants to be different.
daniel-skuret
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 3:08 PM UTC
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