<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368895" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Growing Up</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I didn't know why I was really born<br>I had a sad childhood and was always torn<br>Didn't know my daddy, didn't really know my mother<br>It was just us three, with my sister and my brother<br>We stuck together and formed a bond<br>We were all we had and were very fond<br>We would defend each other all our life<br>There was pain and fear and plenty of strife<br>We were abused and neglected most of the time<br>Then, you could starve and beat your kids, not a crime<br>We were passed around to home after home<br>We never had much to call our own<br>We had a different daddy once a week<br>They made us full of fear and awful meek<br>Some were very nice and some were very mean<br>Some would beat us constantly, and some would only scream<br>We all grew up rough and we all knew it<br>And if they knew about this poem, they would have a fit<br>Mother couldn't help it, her mind was very weak<br>All her life she suffered, her life was so bleak<br>But we survived it all and grew up too<br>And mother she forgot, and didn't have a clue<br>I loved her so much, through thick and thin<br>The angels came and got her, that's why I can pen!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Donna+Nimmo">Donna Nimmo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368895" data-title="Growing Up de Donna Nimmo" data-description="I didn't know why I was really born I had a sad childhood and was always torn Didn't know my daddy, didn't really know my mother It was just us three, with my sister and my brother We stuck together and formed a bond We were all we had and were ve..."></div> </div> </div>

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