I Know
20 September, 2004
Author: Barbara Goodhew
I know what it feels to hurt.
I know what it feels to be treated like dirt.
I know what it feels to be loved.
I know what it feels to be well bodied.
I know what it feels to be ill bodied.
I know what it feels to be confined.
I know what it feels to be free.
Best of all I know what it feels to be ME.
------- Author's Notes -------
I wrote this after being told I don't know what they,ve been through. We all make choices, to be bitter and cold, or loving and warm. I made the choice not to be like the people in my life. I chose to be loving and warm. |
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Comments on this poem/writing:
| Terrie* (65.148.231.102) -- Monday, September 20 2004, 03:03 pm i hear where your coming from,in my personal life i have experienced death during my last child birth, lost more than 1 unborn child, my spouse, i have no bitterness( i did in the beginning) i have learned to give back into life the love God has blessed me with in other respects,i believe highly in the stealth system only he see's where my heart is.(he also knows how human i am and doesn't judge me) sometimes i'm overwhelmed because life is filled w/many uncertainties, one never knows what is going to happen next.i try not to have a negative thought, our thoughts are known to be very powerful...like you say i know what it feels like to be ME..and i can only be ME.. |
| barb (206.191.91.149) -- Monday, September 20 2004, 04:09 pm thank-you for your comment and for understanding. |
| Terrie* (65.148.231.102) -- Monday, September 20 2004, 04:14 pm Anytime doll, be proud of your work as i am.. HUGS/LOVE Always.... |
| Capricorn (82.36.129.85) -- Wednesday, September 22 2004, 11:40 pm More words of wisdom from you.We can only be ourselves if we are to be happy in life. |
| barb (66.46.241.237) -- Thursday, September 23 2004, 04:33 am Thanks cap you're right! |
| Terrie* (65.150.167.183) -- Thursday, September 23 2004, 09:06 pm when you have a sec. if you haven't already read my "only one of ME " we are better at being ourselves, because we know ourselves better no shadows to another being.....your words illustrate straight talk and truth..i like them all...Hugs/love |
| joyce ivy (68.19.178.219) -- Saturday, September 25 2004, 01:01 am i can really relate to all you write in this poem...the only thing is i still don't know what it feels like to be me again.after a bitter relationship i lost a part of me that has taken 5 years to overcome after him making me feel like dirt...but i am on my way to finding myself..and through my poetry and the true love i have found i am doing that now. |
| barb (209.112.24.57) -- Saturday, September 25 2004, 03:16 pm Oh and Joyce it took me 15 years to get all of me back, but it' worth it. Hang in there keep working at it. |
| barb (209.112.24.57) -- Saturday, September 25 2004, 03:18 pm I don't know how to get your poem can you tell me what to do ? |
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