Impatient little boy

Forced to grow up too soon. -

Don't like what they say about you

Proving them right with every step
Expected to know the difference

But youth stands in your way

Confusion reigns in your soul

Not knowing right from wrong
Everyone says ‘J love you'

Chen they always turn away

Your only trying hard to understand

Your life is full of ups and downs
Everything changes so fast

Crying to forget the past

and keeping tt within

Sleep is denied from your aching heart

You need to find the truth about life
Jf you let me JM help you look

You may be able to hide from God
but to me you're an open book

J care about where you've going
and where you're going to be
Please let me be forever your friend
and don't turn your back on me

“Niki King-Jocks

~ Pretense

I try to be brave, I try to be strong

~ Ltry to pretend I don't need anyone

ut,

‘ab the sun goes down and the cold sets in,
when the fears reappear and the doubts begin,
the-vell falls

from my charade

and the longing starts to ache,

to grow, to devour me alive.

Alive,

I feel the hard

pressing need for love,

to love & be loved

Harder & heavier its weight sits upon me
crushing my brave strength.

Baring all pretense

I stand naked, exposed

oe in the night

longing for warmth.

Jade

 

 

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. Poems, 8-30 lines each, neither published nor accepted for publication,

may be on any subject, in any form or style. No limit to the number of
entries per person.

. Contestants retain all rights to their poems. Please keep copies.

Submissions are not returned.

. Each participant is entitled to one free copy of the 1993 Humanitas

Poetry Annual, in which the winning entries will be published. Please type
your full name and address, including postal code (where applicable), at
the top right-hand corner of every page.

. Administration fee: $5 Canadian for EACH POEM submitted. Non-

refundable. Cheques and money orders: payable to Humanitas
International Poetry Contests.

. Deadline: 30th November, 1993. Our annual comes out in December.

Poems received after the deadline date will be entered for the 1994
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