When you wer nine years old, did you ever have to come to terms with something?

Question: When you wer nine years old, did you ever have to come to terms with something!?

They untangled him
and laid him down, a leaf
on his jowl stained
red with the
memory of life
bruising through!.
He remembers
the blazing pink sticks
next to his boot
and the dirt piled to his waist and the
red patches humming
in the hot
stale sun!. He
remembers
the flies biting
and the sting of
dying on him like
a skin-jacket
and the too green grass
humming and
the stick they
halved
and tied, dead red
still dripping
as it puddled the
fly food constant!.
The cross of crude
waste wood
was there a month later
but he sees the red
still
and he always
remembers
best when summer
comes humming and old
dogs fill patches of
yard with un-green bones
and tangled leaves
and death blows it’s
breath to a boy
in a red shirt
waiting!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

At nine, under the stick halved tied, lay buried my innocence!.
That was the year my father told me I had no right to tell him
"no" when he took me to his bed
and taught me that my sole purpose in life
was to meet the needs of others
despite my own destruction!.

Does one ever "come to terms" with that!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes I had to come to terms with things like death when I was little but it was too scary for me so I put it back and forgot it until I was able to have closure!. God helped me with dreams that gave me closure and peace!. My grandmother always prayed for all of us and I think it helps with hard things and makes them easier although my parents did not talk to me about how much help I could get from God!. My grandmother lived miles away!. The prayers still helped!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I had to come with terms that dad was either in a good mood or a bad mood there wasn't any in between!. If he was in a bad mood you got the hell out of his way, If he was in a good mood then that was the time to ask for something you wanted!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

This is really great!. To answer your question yes, I had to come to terms from a very young age that grown ups can do some very sick things to little kids, and that as an adult that hurt little kid still hasn't healed!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Rusty died out in the woods!. I didn't cover him up!. I wanted to watch the course of his transformation!.!.!."dust to dust"!.!.!.it made for a cruel and unloving poem that nobody liked, not even Sheryl!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes!.
And you have just touched my heart yet again, Buk!.
Thanks for sharing the pain!.

P!.S!. The pages are filling up quickly!. I think I may have to start Buk: Volume II soon!Www@QuestionHome@Com

since I've almost always had animals around ; death was a sad fact I struggled with!.
I understand it better now,having lost most of my relatives and parents,as well as quite a few program and church friends!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Wow!
I want more!.
Wow!
I want a book!.
Wow!
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Innocence lost !. !. !. !. !. !. !. yes I didWww@QuestionHome@Com

Yes, my Grandfathers death!.
You are a deep, brilliant soul!.
Very nice Sir Buk *bows*!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Just before my 9th birthday I had to deal with the knowledge that my Mother wasn't coming back from the hospital this time!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I had to come to terms with all dogs go to heaven when they die,Well at least i was told that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

yes I did, I came to terms with 'I am!.!.!.!.I said' (thank you Neil Diamond for making me strong =)

you write very well sirWww@QuestionHome@Com

Mom took the dirt nap when I was nine!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

*sighs thoughtfully and sips coffee while gazing outside at the swaying trees and sunshine*Www@QuestionHome@Com

Thank goodness I don't remember that time well!. It was the time in a life filled with hell!. Love the poem though!. :DWww@QuestionHome@Com

I had to come to terms with the fact that my Parents weren't perfect!. That they made mistakes too!. It broke my heart!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

wow almost seems like hannibal's story, though not the same!.!.!.i had to come to terms with death!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Very good !.!. Yes we all have to come to those terms even though we dont understand it !.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Lovely my friend!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Wow Buk that was deep!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

memories of the past is better left in the pastWww@QuestionHome@Com

I came to terms with what my penis was for!. I embraced it ever since!.

BrandonWww@QuestionHome@Com

my grand father passed away when i was nineWww@QuestionHome@Com

I was six and my Calico got hit by a car!. Dad took me to my Grandparents farm to bury her!. He handed me a paper bag full of my kitty and he grabbed the shovel and we headed for the unused chicken coop!. I peaked into the bag and she was staring right back at me!. I screamed "Daddy she's still alive, we can't bury her!"!. He explained to me that she was still gone!.
If only that was the worst thing to happen to me as a kid!. This one was very vivid in my memory!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Always love your poems!. They are filled with thoughtful insight!. I had to come to terms with the fact that my family had just pretty much lost everything in a major hurricane!. I was younger than 9 years old, but I still recall the day my dad almost died as a tree hit the house and pinned him under a cabinet!. His back was forever damaged!. We lost the piano I was just learning to play, and many other things that were becoming a part of my young life!.!.The storm rocked my world big time!.!. But in the end we all survived and that's what mattered most!. And who would have ever imagined that many years later I, as an adult, would lose my own home during a major snow/ice storm!. But again, I'm here, my pets and I survived that day, and life goes on!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com