Yangon Thu

Weekend Poetry!

Being You

I tired to be you.
I tried to be so cool,
but the worse part about being you
was that I had to pretend
I loved everyone else the best.

I used to give up
the gold chains on my neck
so you can buy everyone else
anything but second best.

I used to wonder why
I was paying for your debt
while they would sit there,
in their Sunday Best.

But I kept my promise,
I kept it to the end.
I found her and the clarity
came after the crying fest,
it was as if, the light had
stopped flickering at last.

Blaming is for other people,
shaming is for other people,
nurturing and loving are what
I'll be taking from the things you left.
you know, I will always love you
for everything that you once were.

-Yangon Thu-
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It's Weekend Poetry time! I didn't have any thing that I wrote for a long time, So I just wrote the above just now.
And I'm tagging the following bloggers to come join my Weekend Poetry program:

1. Tanya (she owes me from last week. Girl, I know you remember some of the poetry we wrote in Secondary 4 - write it down. love ya!)

2. Ditto to Yan Naung - He is so good with his poems but he won't share. Come on Yan Naung, share!!

3. CMS (I want to read a poem from a Mandalay Thar!)

4. 7 Monkeys! (I enjoy alot of what they write, so I hope that they can participate in my Program)

And I hope everyone else who participated in the program last week will continue to do so. Thank you.

Guidelines for weekend Poetry:

1) It can be in any language about anything.
2) You can tag other people to participate as well - it's fun making people do things, try (LOL).
3) And you can even post poetry from other poets you like, acknowledging them, so that our poetry knowledge can grow.

Woot!

Posted by Yangon Thu at September 22, 2006 06:18 PM