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Array ( [sid] => 124464 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Why Aren't We Like That Anymore? [time] => 2006-08-14 18:35:46 [hometext] => [bodytext] => Daddy please
stop yelling.
I can't stand
the sound.
It makes me
cringe & shudder
& want to kill myself.

Swallowing down
a clump, of all the
things I want to say,
but I know better
than to say them,
since you won't listen
anyway.

Why can't you and
Momma, just go get
some help? Instead
of all this yelling &
making our lives hell.

I want to be happy
like that day we went
to the park. In that
photograph we are
all smiling. Why aren't
we like that anymore?
Why aren't we like
that anymore? [comments] => 5 [counter] => 197 [topic] => 23 [informant] => justme03 [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 8 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => FamilyPoems )

Why Aren't We Like That Anymore?

Contributed by justme03 on Monday, 14th August 2006 @ 06:35:46 PM in AEST
Topic: FamilyPoems

Daddy please
stop yelling.
I can't stand
the sound.
It makes me
cringe & shudder
& want to kill myself.

Swallowing down
a clump, of all the
things I want to say,
but I know better
than to say them,
since you won't listen
anyway.

Why can't you and
Momma, just go get
some help? Instead
of all this yelling &
making our lives hell.

I want to be happy
like that day we went
to the park. In that
photograph we are
all smiling. Why aren't
we like that anymore?
Why aren't we like
that anymore?

Copyright © justme03 ... [ 2006-08-14 18:35:46]
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Re: Why Aren't We Like That Anymore? (User Rating: 1 )
by lostinmyself on Monday, 14th August 2006 @ 06:43:57 PM AEST
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This reminds me a lot of Pink's 'Family Portrait'.

That's good, btw. I love that song.

I can relate to this very much.

I like the simplicity of this, it really does sound as if it is being read through a child's eyes.

Great write,
*hugs*
Phil xxx

Re: Why Aren't We Like That Anymore? (User Rating: 1 )
by kellycat on Monday, 14th August 2006 @ 07:20:26 PM AEST
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great poem

Re: Why Aren't We Like That Anymore? (User Rating: 1 )
by Shmokin on Monday, 14th August 2006 @ 08:43:04 PM AEST
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after readin some of your other poems, i think you could have done better with this subject matter, this one didnt flow as well as usual, and sounded a bit false, or forced.
i hope you dont mind my comments, but i appreciate critisim as well as praise and i hope you do to. i do like a lot of your work :-)

Re: Why Aren't We Like That Anymore? (User Rating: 1 )
by emystar on Monday, 14th August 2006 @ 11:40:28 PM AEST
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Very sad but well written. You get your point accross well.
Unfortunatly life changes people and things.
huggs,
emy

Re: Why Aren't We Like That Anymore? (User Rating: 1 )
by Channing on Tuesday, 29th August 2006 @ 05:07:06 PM AEST
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Depressing, but it happens more than people like to believe.

-Channing-

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