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What I Could Never Tell My Mother MAG

February 1, 2008
By Anonymous

What I could never tell my mother
Isn’t her fault; it’s mine
It’s things wrapped inside of me, coiled like wire with the filament exposed
She could accept them – those things – I’m sure
Maybe even love them the way she loves me; little puzzle pieces
That fell out of the box when we were putting it under the sofa
After we almost finished the puzzle together
But I hide them inside my deepest aorta
Keeping them safe because who wants to grab a still-beating heart?
It would kill me to take those secrets out
So my mother may know they exist
But she lets me keep them.
And maybe that’s the real secret, the one that
Shhhh
She doesn’t know –
It’s that I need some secrets of my own.

© Anonymous

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on Jul. 18 2011 at 2:04 pm
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I love this one! I can really relate to what its saying(:
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whoops, i meant i've had some time to look through your work.
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Wow ; I haven't had time to go back and read some of your work ; and it is amazing.
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I really like the ending :)
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this is written very well. i can relate to this poem, there are a lot of things i cannot tell my mother and i enjoyed reading this poem, good job(:
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This is really good, and I can relate, but I think it could be better if you did a little revising and condenced it a little.

"Say the most you can in the fewest words possible." -Robert Frost.

"Remove the unnessisary so the nessisary can speak." -Mrs. Hambrick (My 7th and 8th grade English teacher; she'd bloody brillant.)

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I understand how you feel... There are just thing's I could never tell my mom.