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All up to me?


So, it's all up to me?..

To write something that someone will read and find meaning in?

It's all up to me?..

To be rewarded a scholarship for my college education?

Doesn't seam like it... because really all I can do is participate.

All I can do is write something down that HOPEFULLY someone would read and actually relate to.

Maybe get a consideration, maybe even a second look...

But surely this so called, "poem" will just be tossed to the side,

Tossed aside like a cast away, It doesn't even belong.

I guess I should have named this poem Outsider, but that would have been wrong. 

This poem ain't golden and my names not Pony Boy.

Even with my assured doubts a slouch would pounce on this oppurtunity.

Tired of being over looked, done with being recognized.

I don't give a DAMN about the money or the grand prize!

You know... I wrote this poem cause of the name of the scholarship.

"It's all up to you"

I just wanted to let you know it's not all up to me...

It's up to you readers who are looking this over.

 

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