BITTER OR BETTER

We welcome Emily from Atlanta as a new long-distance writer. 

She’s already had a poem posted on this site. She wrote

 EMILY AND MR. SPIDER   (click on title to read) 

when she was five years old. 

Her genre as an adult is still poetry. 

Everybody has problems

Everybody has gifts

Everybody has choices

about the way that they live

Who you truly are inside

should not be where you've been

or the struggles you have faced in life

It is the strength from deep within

Others may have hurt you

or led you to believe

you were worthless, bad, or nothing

but this doesn't have to be

The choice is yours my friend

so stand up and decide

to be bitter or be better

They don't have to run your life

You are not alone dear heart

So many shed these tears

You are not your past mistakes

You are not your fears

You can prove them right or wrong

in your choices day by day

Will you choose bitter or better