Emma Surtees. Writer.

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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.