She Couldn\'t Handle What She Couldn\'t Bare

by beautyinainstant   Mar 17, 2006


A couple of generations ago
A lady fell in love with a fellow
Later he was stoned to death
For not listening to another mans threat

They were to be married
On the day he was buried
A day that was suppose to be happy with lots of laughter
Never turned into a fairytale of happy ever after

Instead of happiness
All there was sadness
She knew there love was forbidden and thought to be bad
And one day she lost it and just went mad

She felt it was her fault
they thought it was a lesson she ought to be taught
There love was forbidden because he was black
She knew she would never be allowed to come back

The people in the town
were just bound
to find out she was going to have a baby
before she was to marry

The baby
was to be named Carey
her ending was sad
she never even had a dad

When people found out
they began to yell and shout
but she didn't care
and she couldn't handle what she couldn't bare

So she toke her life
Never to become anyone Else's wife
Never to love again
And that was her tragic end

So now their baby
Never grew up with mommy and daddy
She was made fun of
With no one to love

And you ask how this could get any worse?
People said that Carey needed to remorse
She felt she had done nothing wrong
They said it wouldn't be to long

Before they would kill her
She was left in the woods cold and bare
Three deaths because of one forbidden love
Now all three remain in heaven above

~Valerie
I'm not sure what the inspiration for this poem was but is about racism which still remains in issue in the world 2day!

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  • 18 years ago

    by })I({FlutterBye-Kisses})I({

    A very nice poem :)

    This poem does show that you've started writing poetry quite recently but I think you've started on the right foot. You've come up with something quite original and I quite liked how you told a story within the poem. It is rather simplistic but you can only improve, right?

    Also, you must remember that poems don't always need to rhyme and at times when the poem does rhyme, it seems quite hard on the ear as it doesn't flow all that well. But I started writing poems with every first line of a couple rhyming with the one beneath it.

    Experiment with the rhymes and soon you'll just sort of shed rhymes and move on. At times rhymes can hold a poet back from his or her potential though I do understand that it is much easier just to rhyme.

    I only wish to give you advice from my own experiences and so I really do hope I haven't hurt your feelings or brought down your confidence in poetry. Poetry is not only an art, a talent but also a way of venting your emotions, sadness and frustrations of things that happen in your life and so I'm really happy that you've started writing poetry; I do not want to put a stop to that. I'm sure poetry will help you in hard times to come as they it has helped me :)

    Keep up the good work! I really enjoyed it! :D

  • 18 years ago

    by ßeAuTiFuLlY~bRoKeи

    That was good! And you only started writing a few months ago...? that's really good...its hard to find the inspiration and words for for poetyry but I can see you have it in you! keep it up =) thanks for your comment on mine, btw here's a few sugestions...
    "For not listening to the other man's threat"
    maybe put "another mans threat" since we don't know who the man is ya know..
    i don't know how you feel about advice so I won't say anything else exept well done!

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