Free Verse Poetry
On My Knees
I have been knocked down
again & again… so have you.
Tried to fight, tried to find
a clear path only to be
blocked & buried.
What they don’t know
is if I stayed down
I would have died
decades ago…
I am guessing
you would have too.
If you’ve got my
back, I have your
neck, together.
When I am on my knees
& my head is bowed,
don’t count me out.
I am trying to decide
if I am coming back
as fire or ice, but
trust me,
I am coming back.
May the odds be ever
in our doubters &
troublemakers favor.
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Stephanie Green aka the radioactivangl currently lives in Northern Wisconsin, the US, and is forty-three years old with no children. Due to her childhood career, she is lucky enough to say she only has three states left to visit in the US. Besides, she has spent time in several parts of Canada and the UK. She was born in Germany to military parents and lived in Okinawa until she was five years old. Stephanie, nonetheless, started writing when she was about nine, including having a small story written and illustrated bound and placed in the US Library of Congress. It was a special project for grade school kids. Something that when thought about today, clearly means she was supposed to be a writer. Also, around that time she started taking the lists of vocabulary words off the chalk board and making one poem with as many as possible, by choice. Even her teachers thought she was odd. She stopped writing for the most part for over twenty years and just took it up again in October 2020. Reading and writing are passions of hers along with music and photography. She has spent the last two decades working in the trucking industry in the US in the Safety and Compliance field.
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