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Defining Lego Moment [Slam Poetry]

Defining Lego Moment? What is that, I don’t own one!

Life growing up was unacceptable – it was chemical and dispensable

My life has never been a bed-and-breakfast - early childhood memories got me ill and susceptible

Tryin’ to find a good early childhood memory is like NOT passing “the test”, because I wasn’t in class. So I ask, what’s next?

Defining moments were replaced by worries and doubts, fears and shouts

My, oh my, why couldn’t I have been brought up in someone else’s house?  

I’m just me. So why can’t anyone see I’ve got dreams I want to turn into reality?

I know, maybe I’m adopted! Oh, I could only wish that I belonged to a different home

So who knows, maybe I’m supposed to grow old in a world where survival is at the core of my bones

Future me, I hope that you see, I’m not like them, nor do I ever want to be “like them”

 

-----------------Fast forward to today ---------------------

 

I thank GOD for the life I was given and the road that was driven

I’m here because of those dreams which started out as fears - I’m what I am because of those years

I know that I wouldn’t’ be here if it wasn’t for those days of dysfunction and tears

I’m at a junction in my life - I’ve realized that my unction in life is an exponential function that shines like a bright light

My tears have been replaced with people who are sincere and true

I no longer have to worry about the black and blue, now I can simply wave ado…

So I chose to become not what I saw, but what I knew was right in my heart. I leaned on God and learned from stressful nights that choosing the road less taken was all part of this plight

And here we are today….

Now, what does this say, about me?

It says that I’m a child of Destiny, not a child of Disney

It says that I’m a child of God not a child of the Devil

It says that I am…

Predestined presently, sensibly created even though I didn’t come from the best pedigree...

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Written by
richard-martin
36 / M / Romanian
Published
Apr 9, 2018
Lines·Words
24·368
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Slam Poetry

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#defining#lego#moment#life#growing#up#childhood#memories#destiny#god
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