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Orphan

by KeeKee

A life I never asked for A life I'm forced to live But a life nonetheless, right? My scars scattered across my body My eyes dull My heart empty My soul... soul less? But a life nonetheless, right? Father and mother dropped me off at my grandma's and never came back She's had me since I was 3 She died working to support me And now it's back to back in foster homes Sometimes they're nice, other times... very, very bad. And on to the next I go But a life nonetheless, right? I'm at the top of my class and skipped ahead a year But I'm called an overachiever My intelligence isn't great anymore Talent isn't great anymore Just trying isn't great anymore You just don't You give up before anything can happen so they can never say 'you're not only letting others down, but yourself' But a life nonetheless,  right? A life nonetheless. A life. This valued, precious life.
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KeeKee
26 / F
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Written by
KeeKee
26 / F
Published
Mar 14, 2017
Time
2m
Notes

I'm going to be making this into a series! It's going to be called but a life nonetheless, right? This first one is called Orphan. Well... because it's the life of an orphan.  This is all fiction and from my mind, so I'm trying my best to  put myself in their shoes.

To go more into this poem. It's the label Orphan because I don't want names, you don't really need them. You know that this is about an orphan. What an orphan might go through, might not go through. What they feel, their past lives, etc. No matter what the label has been given to them, they are still a person.  

Knowing a little bit of who they are and leaving off on a cliff hanger is fun, so the reader can make up their own ending for this poem, for this orphan, this person.

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#sad#home#lost#person#abandon#orphan#foster#adopt#balnr#ager
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