Poems of Growing Up and Personal Growth by Ellen Kozisek

Yesterday

Yesterday
I was on top of the world,
Things could not have been better,
But something changed,
And now today
My heart is feeling low.

The perfect world
I thought was mine
Now has slipped away.
I mourn it's loss,
And wish it back,
But it is gone to stay.

Maybe tomorrow
Things will be better
If I keep faith in God.
Till then
I'll live with memories,
Of brighter days now gone.

First Love

When you came
You changed my world,
For better or for worse
It'll never be the same.

I risked my heart
And fell in love,
But my heart was broken
Thru no fault of yours.

First love
Is a strange adventure
Bringing the child
To the world of adults.

No longer a child,
The adolescent sees
How wonderful
Forever love must be.

A Prayer for Peace

We study wars in history.
They seem a part of life.
We study death and vict'ry, yet
We do not feel the strife.
Till one day men in charge decide,
"It's time to make a war,"
And tell us what the reasons are
That men are fighting for.
Then we know that war is wrong,
That we should not cause death,
That war is not how men should draw
A last a fleeting breath.
For violence, it is never right,
No matter what the reason,
And Peace should fill our lovely land,
No matter what the season.

A Lesson From a Lost Hero

I thought you were my hero.
I put you on a pedestal.
I thought that you were perfect.

Why did you have to go
and destroy my image of you?
Did you not know how much it would hurt me?

After I get over the hurt
This lesson I'll still remember:
Only God is perfect.

A Poem of Love

Now,
I too am a sun.
I shine my light
so that others may grow.
Yet I am still a flower
That needs the light of love to grow.
As you,
Who were the the sun for me,
Are also a flower.
Let me be a sun
And shine upon you
To help you grow.
I will always be your friend.

I've loved him for so long.
I thought it was enough.
But now I know something was missing.
I gave all I could give,
But it wasn't enough.
I never really gave me.
I never surrendered.

But now...
Now everything's changed.

I've learned to surrender.
To give up all.
And it's a wonderful thing.
In giving up all,
My deepest desires have been fulfilled.

Thank you, Lord.

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