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Smile,
like it's the last time
you'll ever hear me say
I love you.
And pretend that last summer
wasn't the nightmare you remember,
that all pretty girls grow up
in pretty dresses
and Daddy loves them a life time.
So smile.
Never remember this night,
or the shocking realization
that all little girls grow up
to be whores or worse...
Fools in love with fools.
Could you expand a little on the line about little girls growing up to be whores or worse Terry? Finding it more than a little offensive as it stands.
This is such a sad and bitter poem Terry. Nevertheless, in today's climate it is understandable to have this opinion. It seems that many are being bought in one way or another, be they female or male. So sad an indictment in the west when although many would not say what you have said, they know there is a lot of truth in this verse.
Nepal some years ago, entertained capitalism. They invited companies from our side of the globe to invest in thier country. Vice, prostitution and drugs rose several hundred percent overnight. The Royal Household of Nepal then became under siege by the fighting factions of the Royal Household. Several members of their Royal family lost thier lives, because those that invited western ideology into the country had corrupted it overnight. It sort of puts into perspective what we have to deal with. I don't know how Nepal is now after the about turn of capitalism, but here in the west, everybody in some form or other has a price, everyone is corrupted in one form or another, and we have forgotten ethics.
Sad for many fathers that see their daughters entertain the ideas you have put, but just as sad are the males too, who when leaving school with little to hope for, become the soldiers, the labourers, the fools the daughters often go for just to get by. We have lost so much in the West, so much of ourselves that my heart breaks. That is why I promote balance in the world, and why my heart bleeds for the third world that has been duped for so long and has lost a great deal of heritage. We may sit in relevant comfort in the west, but at what cost when we have sold our own virtue and promise.
Nice work Terry.
Stay well, and hope for an attitude of change.
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Laura Taylor
Wed 27th Jul 2011 09:41
Hi Terry - ta for getting back to me. No, that's great, it works brilliantly in that regard - I am living proof!