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Screw You

You Were Supposed To Be My Safe Place

By Kelli Sheckler-AmsdenPublished 6 months ago Updated 6 months ago 1 min read
Screw You
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I'm the one you want

when there's no one else around

The kind that you call friend

until someone else you know, is found

Pretty good at conversation

as you keep looking over my shoulder

I should have learned my place and station

to known my place when I got older

I get invited to the party

stuck in the corner by myself

The weird one in the family

without a picture on the shelf

Don't have an answer to the question

exactly what it is I did

And if you want a true confession

I've been odd man out, since we were kids

I find myself saying, I'm sorry

when things begin to feel uncomfortable

I'm always the first one to get worried

don't want to be seen as, insufferable

I don't know where these feelings came from

and these days, I feel pissed off

Why do I need your affirmation

or care if or when you brush me off

I'm tired of being your understudy

feeling like I'm always in the way

mumbling under my breath, "just f me"

but those are the things I cannot say

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Kelli Sheckler-Amsden

Telling stories my heart needs to tell <3 life is a journey, not a competition

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  • L.I.E6 months ago

    Such annoying. A very relatable poem.

  • Mother Combs6 months ago

    Yep, hated it then, really hate it now

  • I had to read this when I saw the title. I caught sibling rivalry vibes. We’ve all been there feeling like we’re not the golden child

  • I relate to your story. I was the wild one, the creative one, then the scapegoat, then whatever the bullies in my family said I was. I am a woman not their steppingstone or scapegoat. Your story is realistic and truthful.

  • Marilyn Glover6 months ago

    A-ha, I can totally relate, often the oddball out in the family, growing up, & in school. Yes, yes, "Screw You" sounds delightful. I love it, Kelli!!!

  • Darkos6 months ago

    I like it 😊 to read and it does feel like relief to what's going on around with all these who we simply need send into your poem 😆 to read the title especially

  • Bren6 months ago

    Got the black sheep blues Kelli?

  • Kendall Defoe 6 months ago

    Stay out of my head! 😉

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