Lonely Childhood

LONELY CHILDHOOD

A little piece of poetry and its only just for you

Remembering our childhood, as we often do

We must have been little brats but no-one seemed to care

Were we really awful, or was no-one simply aware

The torments of our childhood, is vivid still today

What makes people thoughtless, to ignore and push us away

We hurt inside so deeply and was cut right to the core

But like ignorant puppies, yelped and begged for more

All we wanted was tenderness, someone to say they cared

Then in our adult lives, love was something we feared

Insecure and scared, that’s what we’ve always been

Putting on a tough brave face, that’s what everyone had seen

Emotions are too fickle and hearts are easy to break

How much rejection can any one person take.

J D 1988