Don’t do it… <br />Too young you are… <br />Marriage… <br />To who, <br />you are a step away… <br />Moving in a direction you can’t sustain… <br />Give it some thought. <br />I know who you are… <br />Never have figured who you want to be. <br />Give it some thought… <br />You might want to reconsider… <br />Look at him. <br />Where are you going to be? <br />Ten years from now. <br />A child or two… <br />Your dream so shattered… <br />He is in and out. <br />The late nights… <br />He makes you feel you are not there. <br />The dreams you had… <br />The romance and love… <br />The little house so pristine. <br />So shattered, <br />you have stepped into your own reality… <br />The trailer park, rusted metal houses… <br />One right on top of each other… <br />The noise at night the fights and lowlife’s… <br />You settled for this… <br />You call it home, <br />it’s not what you thought it would be. <br />In town they call you trailer trash… <br />They don’t know who you really are. <br />You are nothing to him. <br />A convenience to be there… <br />An occasional toss between the sheets… <br />When he has nothing better to do. <br />To wash and cook, <br />when he is there…. <br />The kids are a nuisance… <br />Too loud and too much trouble… <br />What a change it has all become… <br />The one you loved so unconditionally… <br />Now alone, <br />sitting in your bed… <br />Too many nights it has been… <br />The drugs and booze… <br />Carouse he will… <br />The lies and smell of another’s perfume… <br />Afraid to say anything it’s for the kid’s sake… <br />You’re sentenced to a harsh life… <br />You did it in the name of impetuous love… <br />Misguided and rash you followed the moment. <br />Never in your dreams… <br />To see you now lying in bed, <br />alone with tears streaming down your face… <br />You can’t figure a way out. <br />Futile your life seems…<br /><br />Kevin Carney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/paying-the-price-3/
