can't believe you tell me it not up to you, <br />don't you know i wouldn't be in this mess, <br />if only it wasn't for you, <br />i have try and not place blame, <br />for the things i can no longer change, <br />but, help me along the way, <br />this is your fight as well as mine, <br />step up! <br /> i had to even though i never wanted to, <br />there comes a day in our lives, <br />where we have to grow up and accept life challenges, <br />when are you going to face yours? <br />i'm doing all that i can, <br />just to keep moving forward, <br />so don't stop me now, <br />because you see me, <br />i don't back down from a fight, <br />i just say bring it! ! <br />i know what i deserve, <br />and this here is not it, <br />i deserve better not get toss aside like yesterday trash, <br />i'm a human being with feeling, <br />my feeling don't rule me, <br />so don't think you're going to rule me, <br />i have a brain, <br />you want to know what it is telling me? <br />i rule my life not you, <br />i say when i had enough, <br />i will not let fear get the best of me, <br />just because it gotten the best of you, <br />because that just not who i am anymore. <br /> <br />4-16-09<br /><br />mona martinez<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/step-up-2/