OLd SOul

Wise beyond her years
With eyes that know the world
Mature before she's grown
And pushed out into the world

She's an old soul
With old world knowledge
Profound speech
Without ever attending college

Pushed before she was ready
Yet she didn't let herself fall
Out in the big bad world before she new it all

Beforehand knowledge
That could not be obtained
By regular real world practices
They are not the same

She's an old soul

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poem by Ashley Stone
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Thanks Father

You treated us all so differently
Yet all the same
Family dinners were strained
Fake smiles accross the table

Thank you for letting me see the real you
Thanks for allowing me to be the one that felt I had to do something
Thanks for leaving me as the one to pick up the pieces
Thanks its just what I needed

For christmas when you gave me a broken family and a dad on the run
I never got the chance to thank you
So accept this as my apology
Let me express my graditude

All I ever wanted was a broken childhood
And I got it
Complete with a crying mother and a father who was barely there
I really loved the time we spent together

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poem by Ashley Stone
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Family?

Do, I have a Family?
If you ask me
I have no family merely associates
For families are genarally suppose to be filled with love

Mine is filled with hatred and with pain.
I am the perfect example of a 21st century family
Due to the mishaps of this world, my mother is a single parent
Much like now most of the world.

And as the years go by it only gets worse.
Families used to be loving, or at least that's what I 've heard.
Why can't we bring back family to what it was?
A mother, a father and children, living under one roof with love

For me, for years I lived afraid for my life, a confused little girl
Without a helpful hand in sight.
Everytime I trusted a man I got burned in the proccess
Only six yet I was afraid because of this.

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poem by Ashley Stone
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