Peer Pressure.... a poem from 2009

http://voices.yahoo.com/peer-pressure-3673808.html?cat=25



Peer Pressure
Selfish-Pride




Hating me, hating life, you scream.
Believing, in another's unfulfilled dream-



You're screaming at me...
You believe in someone else's dream. 
Someone told you who to be...
Believing someone else knows much better...


Running and screaming you're going your own way...  



Never listening because you believe others really care.Screaming, "I hate you..." and all the rest, you believe yourself to be one who does care.


 
Speaking kindly to your "friends" believing they care.
But to visit you they do not dare.



Beware my child. Beware my child.



It is no friend who will not your threshold grace.  
With your friend you must keep pace.



But my child why?
Why my child must you make my heart break and die.



I love you my child, I've loved you from the beginning, and I love you still.
But my child did you know it is because of many harsh words one day you'll have your will...



Willing for me to leave you all alone, one day my child I will...
My child, one day I will, one day I will.



My child, will your friend that day cross your threshold?
I love you, my child, why have you believed the lies your friend has told???



Material possessions, material gain--
It's all one and the same, when will you see? A false friend will instill distain.



My child once you believed I loved you.
When will you see your "friend" was not true?



Sowing distain, and discontent, causing you to believe a lie...
Never have you known for your love I cry.



Pretending to be your friend, applauding when you had a fit...
Laughing as you believed all of it-



Why my child?
There was no reason for you to run wild.



Believing a lie, believing some other cared more.
Believing someone else cared for you, you slammed that door.



"Just Leave Me Alone," soon my child I will.
Someday my child my voice will lay still.



Someday, my child, you'll only hear my warnings in a distant memory.
Silent will be my voice, in silence you'll remember me...