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Please Mother

June 28, 2014
By CourtneyLudwick GOLD, Yorktown, Texas
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Please Mother
I'm only five years old
Hold my hand
Forever

Please Mother
I'm only fifteen years old
Let me go
Go forever

Please Mother
I'm only thirty years old
Life goes on
Forever, forever

Please Mother
I'm only forty years old
I need your hand back
Come back for forever

© Jessica M., Marblehead, MA

The author's comments:
This is a short poem about how as we age, our perspective about life changes.
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