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To Be Human

by Joan Serratelli

Make mistakes
and learn from them

History really repeat itself
I am living proof of that
to be able to reason things out
to be able to laugh
to cry....live
....die

to bleed, to brod, to stew
to be wrong MORE than right

to get angry
to make up
to keep growing
and learning
to want...
with all your heart
to give up

but to go on
o love....
to hate
and understand
that both are words
of passion
to not care
to be indifferent
to hurt
to be hurt
to heal

to be able to say
that you tried
and failed
more than you
had success

to be stressed
to be depressed
to ask for help

to know when you lost
the battle

to not look forward
to NEVER look backward
to NEVER EVER know
what it feels like
to be normal
(is it that overrated?)

I could go on
but why?

Life is....
to be human
too long
for me

11/26/2012

Author's Note: I truely don't know

Posted on 11/26/2012
Copyright © 2026 Joan Serratelli

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 11/29/12 at 02:03 AM

What else can we poets...humans do? Even Shakespeare once wrote: If you tickle me, do I not laugh? Cut me, do I not bleed? Something like that. HAHAHA. And don't forget to laugh Joan.

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