*Just for You*

The years
have not been
kind to me
as long
as I can remember.
~
Twists, turns,
heartaches, and pains.
But through it all,
I've always
had a feeling,
that there was something
else behind it.
~
Some alterior motive
to all the choas,
some reason t
hat it all played out
on the pallet of my life
the way that it has
thus far.
~
I'd sit
and contemplate it,
and I've spent
countless hours,days,
weeks, even years
trying to figure out
the enigma of it all.
~
I think everyone does,
we try and rationalize
what to us does not pan out
the way we wrote it
in our own lifes script.
~
After all,
I thought I
was the greatest
writer/producer
for my own lifes script...
one of Spielberg proportions.
~
Turns out
I wasn't even
a Jerry Seinfeld.
~
So then,
Why have I survived
things that nobody
should have survived?
~
Why have I been so
deprived of
the things I wanted most?
Or so I thought.
~
There WAS something
in my lifes script
I was meant to do.
Some reason for
the obscure
plot development.
~
My life
was never made for me,
see, I, was made....
for you.
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Why do some of the most interesting poets not sign their names? Maybe there is no reason. A name, after all, is just a name.
I like this poem. I looked "alterior" and it wasn't in my dictionary. Could you mean "ulterior"?
I don't quite know what to make of this poem. It seem philoshophical up to the last part. Then, it takes a sudden turn and becomes almost a love poem. That's a surprise. I never thought of myself as "made" for anyone, except maybe for my son or my husband, because, without them, my son would not be here. It is a good thought though. In some ways, we are all here for each other.
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I read it as a prayer the " YOU" as I read is God/
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Anon, bless your heart. someone who has something to say. I agree with you. It could be God. I like your handling of it though, at least the Y should be captialized. I like the way you did it.
Poet, Jerry Seinfield might be hurt. What a talent he has.
sg
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This is just bullshit. What's going on here? Have I been kicked off the site? No added new poems? Nothing? What kind of a very ugly person is doing this? Is it you, Jane. It figures, you old hag.
sg
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I enjoyed this very much. I think we've all felt this way at some point in time.
Phenom*