This is a piece I wrote a little while back.
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The Left Behind Child
Inspired by The Pied piper of Hamelin (1842)
By Emma Surtees
Something about the way I’m caught between
Young and Old
And how I’m not wired like the rest
So I’m told
Plants me somewhere in a wide lost meadow
Looking out
At a world I’m not heard within
It forces me to shout.
In class they are composed and sit up straight and
Know their mind
They don’t behave like little ones who once got
Left behind
And I’m embarrassed all the time, I don’t know
Where to go
My family walked away, and so, my growth is
…slow.