My Life
Once
Once I was toddler bearing witness to the death of my sister due to a fire and/
the thoughts of guilt surrounded me, fueling empty desires and
Once.
Once I was child filled with anger and anguish displaying chacacteristics of a child abused.
Temper the silent language and
Once.
Once I was a young man who loved music and played my trombone
trying to drown out the misery that I felt at home.
Once.
Once I was a disturbed at seeing my flesh and blood killing herself by means of crack and
Once I delt with it by selling it right back
Once
Once I was a 15 year old out on his own with nowhere to go/ But by the grace of God and intuition/ I a paid for my school tuition.
Once
Once I was in love and got married an worked to hold on/
but Once the love was gone I had to move on.
Once.
Once I was so depressed that my depression caused me to have an anourysm,
I was hospitalized.
For 13 second Once I was flatlined.
Once.
Once I became a poet trying to grind my rhymes and
Once I was inspired by a dream not yet realized.
Once
Once I was a man now ready for the real
4 once in my lifetime I'm doing what I feel.
Once.
4 Once in my life I want to be loved as I love/
like the song that sparks my emotion,
I need devotion.
Once .
Once I'd like to be me Just plain and simple Ben/
and complete my lifes mission happlily.
Once. and again and again,and again
Once.
©Benjamin Alexander Casey 2007
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