Ten Things That Have Happened to Me

Ten things that have happened to me My childhood was striped from my hands like a toy A mother at ten with two little girls Only fifth grade but they were my world Ten things that have happened to me Father walked out and mother went to work A new life I hated more than myself I know the fault was not my own; no one knew how broken I felt Ten things that have happened to me Bruises and bumps brought by his bottle I knew that he wasn’t a father I never had one till age sixteen Till then it was only a dream Ten things that have happened to me Too young to know what had happened Too scared to say a word Finally alright I can say Never thought I’d see the day Ten things that have happened to me I guess what I said didn’t matter No matter my words it still happened Twisted my words so it was my fault The only thing more wrong than that was you Ten things that have happened to me I guess just me wasn’t enough Sixteen months and eighteen girls Nothing that was said was ever true The greatest thing I’ve ever done was left you Ten things that have happened to me A problem had grown inside It had to go, or I would die One week of overwhelming fear of death A part of me taken out by knife to save my life Ten things that have happened to me Hatred had turned its way in No one to talk to I was alone to wonder Years in a downward spiral Ten things that have happened to me In my darkest day a relationship pulled me out of my destruction Showed me the light I was missing From birth we’ve loved each other She was the only one that could have helped me, my mother Ten things that have happened to me Hate turned to determination School was first to get an education Although I taught myself the most important lesson To love myself even though ten things have happened to me