Love Poem: Life
Stefani Leslie Avatar
Written by: Stefani Leslie

Life

I can sometimes be an incredible wreck
Mentally and physically my path is hard to treck. 
As a child I was most surely depressed 
Possibly from seeing my beautiful mother overly stressed
I never did meet my biological father
Still to this day it’s a menacing bother
I have 3 siblings on my moms side & 3 siblings on my dads as well
Up until the age of nine my parents lied about my father & had me feeling the need to hid in my shell
I could feel my walls start growing as I entered middle school 
I pushed the envelope way too far & was drowning in my rebellion Pool
I was raised up on lies & truly blind 
Eventually my step dad even left me behind
I think I was starting to feel like no one cared
At that time rejection became a thing that I feared
Emotionally wrecked, lost, lonely, and poor
That’s when evil tried to knock at my door 
experimentation some might call it
I know rebellion was the ultimate culprit 
I found a way to escape my hell
With any drug I could get someone to sell
By the age of seventeen I was in some legal trouble
I started dancing then soon after I was condemned to a bubble
The dancing paid for my bright cloudy escape 
Drugs had sealed my every doubt with metaphorical tape 
It all caught up to me eventually 
I was locked up in that bubble and it took a year to get free
I learned a lot in that year created from wrong
It taught me lessons that will last all my life long
That is until I met me a boy
My first love, oh, it was simply pure joy 
After 3 Years he had cheated then left me
I was so hurt and broken it could have been deadly 
I did eventually get on with my life
Each year got harder and some days cut like a knife
After ten years of dancing, I finally broke free 
Then A man came in my life and showed me what I could be
It’s been almost five years he’s been by my side
And with him life has become a more beautiful ride 
I know nothing is perfect, nor should it be 
Some days we struggle, but mostly we’re happy
He’s shown me a world I never thought could be
He also introduced the real me to me, 
The me that I never ever could see
It’s amazing what life can do with your love 
It showed me below can easily turn to above
I know life is fickle and circumstances may change 
Even if I Veer completely off course, I won’t think it strange
I know life has its lessons it wants you to learn 
So I won’t question the path, I’ll just follow each turn 
Eventually I’ll end up where I’m supposed to be 
And I’ll know that that’s what life wanted for me