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Stephany Martinez

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

2 poems·Since November 2017
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Why?

November 6, 2017

Why do I work all day?

Why do I not show up for dinner?

Why do I not go to your games?

Why do I never seem to be there when you need be?

When I know you won't understand,

That not everything is nice.

I hope you understand that mom left because of me not you

I hope one day you'll understand 

Because I love you.

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