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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Heart of Gold (-for my mother)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was not the person I appeared to be-<br>In your eyes, I was different.<br>Although you never told me-<br>In your spoken words, I was like all of the others-<br>So many times you had hurt me deeply, <br>Through your spoken words and through your eyes, <br>I could never do right-<br>The slap of your hand across my face<br>When I was none but a child of six, even before the words came out-<br>Told me I was a bad girl- I wept and you just walked past me.<br>Roses grew in my father’s garden, plentifully and beautifully, in the summertime, <br>Our home was a palace- my father was the king and you were the queen.<br>When flowers blossomed in the springtime and<br>Leaves changed colors in the autumn- snow would fall in the wintertime-<br>No matter the season, you were the one with the friendly smile and the life of the party-<br>We were the perfect family though I could almost say- though secretly- I hated you.<br>I was only fourteen years old when I broke down and they put me away-<br>I used to think that if you did love me, I never would have known.<br>The bird that could not fly and the child that did not grow up- <br>The young woman, who heard voices nobody else heard, saw sights no one else saw-<br>Everybody was a threat except for those who lived inside the world I had fabricated.<br>I was not the person I appeared to be- the act you forced me to put on-<br>To be like everybody else, I could never be. <br>I wept myself the night father told me how you cried every night I was locked inside<br>The world of my delusions and locked inside that place where<br>People like me were put away- and a month before you passed away, <br>I remember reading the words inscribed across the yellow lined paper-<br>That you had always loved me and I was the most important person in your life.<br>Through those written words, I could see the pain written across your face and<br>For the first time, the love you felt for me shone through your soulful brown eyes-<br>It was the ticking of the wall clock that made me understand, was<br>Keeping time and telling me that in just a short time you would be gone, and<br>To be departed from this world forever.<br>I am alone now and your ashes have been scattered at sea, <br>As had been your final wish and desire- <br>A woman who had lived a life of suffering and<br>Who was not there for me because she could not be, only because<br>She had been locked inside a world of her own despair, <br>A survivor of a life filled with tragedy and pain, but <br>Having grown, I can understand and hear the beating of a golden heart, and<br>Tears cried out of love for a child who had lost her sanity at an age so young-<br>I would remember more than<br>Flowers blossoming, leaves changing colors and snow falling, <br>Year after year, and the agony of growing up in a family I believed at the time<br>Did not care or understand-, but I would remember those precious words inscribed<br>Across yellow lined paper- then I would pick a flower and tuck it behind my ear, <br>Continue my journey through this life and always keep in mind as I listen, <br>In my fondest memory- the ocean’s waves lapping against the shore where<br>Your ashes were scattered twenty years past and<br>The beating of your golden heart…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Claudia Krizay</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Claudia+Krizay">Claudia Krizay</a><div class=q>
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In your eyes, I was different.
Although you never told me-
In your spoken words, I was like all of the others-
So many times you had hurt me deeply, 
Through your spoken words and through your eyes, 
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