Here I am

I have never been to the edge of the world.

I have never seen the ocean.

I have never gone to college.

I have never gotten a tattoo.

I have never been exceptional...

I wonder how it feels to be the person everybody wants to know and I wonder how feels to be held in your mother's arms as she proclaims how proud she is of you.

I have never heard the words I'm proud of you.

I wonder how it feels to go a day without feeling the searing pain in your leg that had stopped you from doing the one sport you were good at and I wonder how it feels to always be number one.

I have never heard the words you are better.

Yet, here I stand. 

I have felt the emptiness that comes with the bitter depression when a mother abandons you and I have felt the loneliness of a stepmother who hates her husband's children.

I'm not different. Yet, here I stand.

Life has never given me handouts. I have risen from the mud that life has kicked me into and I am never giving up. 

I may have never  been worth knowing but I will not stop working until I am.

So here I am.

One day this will change. I will wait for the day when I ask people to stop talking about my adventures. I have made my first step by not letting myself stay in the mud. I will never quit.

Here I am.

 

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