this is about a person who ever since he was a child was treated differently by his family.


The Outcast

As a young boy he was always in trouble, fighting
at school,
He didn't care to study and he broke every
rule.
He was labeled the black sheep in a family
of seven
At nine he stole and wrote bad checks
he was in court rooms by age eleven.
Never a dull moment , life for his mom and dad,
was no picnic
cause he was always acting bad.
Looking for the attention his parents couldn't give
made crime a pattern in the way he chose to live.
Jail and prison, a wife and kids too,
still didn't change him from the life of crime
he knew.
One day in later years he finally turned around
and in that change he found,
His parents always loved him
he just failed to see
the love in dads voice
that he mistook to be,
A father without love a mother who didn't
care,
If only he had looked more deeper

he would've seen love always was there.



Poetry by Donna Lee Marie Balderama
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Written on 2006-06-06 at 10:01

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Zoya Zaidi
A story so beautifully told!
Yes, we never try to look beyond the obvious.
We never try to see the psychology of a criminal.
And the criminal does not see beyond his own nose.
He finds justification of his ill deeds in other people's treatment of him,
because this way he can find a escape goat,
to put the burden of his crime on someone else's shoulders.
The fact is he sees exactly what he wants to see,
and that what suits him and his arrant ways...
Only if he looked deeper...
Avery very thought provoking piece,
A good study of the psyche of a criminal mind!
Welcome again to the bay dear
Donna Lee Marie Balderama
(Oops, can we make it a bit shorter?, Can I call you Donna, please?)
***Hugs**
Love, xxx, Zoya
2006-06-06