Sadly Reality

• Natalie Borg, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2010

Confused and alone as I was only three
A million drops of diamonds rolled down my cheek
As i stared at the doctors in fright
And realised i wasn’t going to get much sleep tonight
If we could go back in time and start over
Could I have possibly done something at the age of three
to deserve what was sadly happening to me?
I did not choose a life like this
I don’t want it to be this way
Those normal times I reminisce
When the world wasn’t so grey
As my heart was torn into little pieces
My dreams and hopes never to be released
My visions of a clear and wonderful world
were once vivid but reality has been unfurled
And again and again I lie awake in bed
I pray and hope that when I wake up
my past will all just become a dream, a dream that will never become reality