Family Portrait (standard:poetry, 176 words)
Author: Lori	Added: Oct 08 2008	Views/Reads: 2634/1744	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
Sometimes you have to be on the outside looking in to see the "true" picture. And sometimes the outsider longs to be the person on the inside.

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Did it 

take away the pain? 

Or send more 

into your heart? 

Do you wonder who 

was being betrayed? 

~ 

At the end, 

I saw you 

wrap your arms 

around your son and her. 

The picture of a perfect family. 

~ 

How it hurts to be 

on the outside looking in. 

©September 13, 2008 by Lori


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