It was December 24, 1976,
The Saturday before my 16th birthday-
It was supposed to be a special day.
Alone I sat, contemplating if I should sleep or celebrate,
Inside my mind I constantly heard voices screaming in my ears telling me not to wait.
I was mad at the world ,
No one ever paid me any attention,
My mother always had a needle stuck inside her vein,
My dad had an unstable job history, he was always the one that would complain,
I had enough, I did what seemed easy,
Took a belt and made myself a necklace,
It was all over after I pushed the chair away,
I’m 27 today.
From First Love to its destructive end and on to new beginnings, Mary Angela Nangini's poems explore the birth and death of a relationship. The powerful poems are presented in two parts with an introduction to her next book My Ontario Beautiful. (Th
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
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Very sad - very real - very powerful.
Karen Dunn
Very good writing!
~Nikki~