This was written by Linda Looney Please, do not take without permission

Hard Life

I remember as a child

Wishing I were anywhere

Except for at home

Trying to be quiet

Hoping to disappear

Just to be left alone.

Always scared and afraid

Never knowing why

I was hated so

I never was good enough

No matter what I'd do

I wished they'd let me go.

Only ridicule and pain

So why'd they keep me there?

Used to try to make myself

Into someone invisible

Only felt despair.

Then in the summer

I was set free

To go where I loved to be

Up to the house on the hill

With my Grandma

That was where I was happy.

No one screaming, No one hitting

No one drunk and mean

Here I was at home

I liked being alone

Here in the place of my dreams.

This was written by Linda Looney Please, do not take without permission