Forced To Grow Up Too Soon

Hope I got this right... can't seem to get away from the rhyming thing...
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Forced to Grow Up Too Soon

When I was a child,
I thought as a child,
I played like a child.
But my childhood didn't stay

it went far, far away,
it didn't come back to
my dismay. It stay'd gone
even to this very day.

Before my mid-teens I thought
as an adult. This is what life
gave me, who am I to sulk ?
Even though I thought it wrong

I cannot be mad, for I am strong,
I found I do not have to belong
to a person. I'm fine by myself as long,
as I stay true to myself, I'll be strong.


By: Cissyccr
6/10/08
Free verse
for FOP class

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