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	Easy Rog ;)	Need the genuine article. Good stuff. Good to see you been awhile. Rog   Posted by Easy Rog ;) on September 4, 2009 - Friday - 12:02 PM [Reply to this]

	E (Rogue Poet)	brilliant my friend... ---E   Posted by E (Rogue Poet) on September 4, 2009 - Friday - 12:55 PM [Reply to this]

	Running Horse	Brad, Good to see you back. LOved this. Running Horse   Posted by Running Horse on September 4, 2009 - Friday - 2:32 PM [Reply to this]

	Ramona	Good to have you back Great poem   Posted by Ramona on September 4, 2009 - Friday - 2:47 PM [Reply to this]

	lil Flame	great write, it's so good to see you   Posted by lil Flame on September 4, 2009 - Friday - 6:57 PM [Reply to this]

	Curt	touching write my friend   Posted by Curt on September 4, 2009 - Friday - 10:59 PM [Reply to this]

	gary gary williams	cool.   Posted by gary on September 4, 2009 - Friday - 11:12 PM [Reply to this]

	poeticpiers ivor. ewan hogg	I'm the youngest son They saved the best til last   Posted by poeticpiers on September 4, 2009 - Friday - 11:33 PM [Reply to this]

	charlie brown charles lang	You know "blood" will always be thicker than water.... does not matter when you came and who is in front or behind you...my good man....   Posted by charlie brown on September 5, 2009 - Saturday - 1:52 AM [Reply to this]

	Barbara Barbara Kausteklis	Beautiful!   Posted by Barbara on September 5, 2009 - Saturday - 3:39 AM [Reply to this]

	BC Beneke	Thank you all. I wrote the idea for this when I was 12 years old. I am the oldest son, but I am adopted and my brother was not so he was given more and shown more love than I COULD HAVE EVER BEGGED FOR and now that my mom is gone I wanted to lay this to rest and embrace the love I was given, and more importantly the love I have to give.   Posted by BC Beneke on September 5, 2009 - Saturday - 7:57 AM [Reply to this]

	EDIEMAY -- SMILES ARE FREE!!!!!!!!!!	Going to jump in here after your comment. I am so glad you are getting this out--I have some repressed feelings about my Mom and Dad--I am in the middle if 9 children---had a dream last night about my Mom and she wasn't very nice to me --even in the dream we disagreed. They both are gone now---you know some of my heartaches concerning my Dad so i won't go there here. I will say that maybe your Mom did not know how to show you how she felt. I have heard of many couples adopting and then being blessed with another child that came from their union. Maybe, if it wasn't for you, they would never have had your Brother. God placed you with them for a reason--I am so sorry you felt the way you did but good things have come from it-- Love and hugzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz  ediemay   Posted by EDIEMAY -- SMILES ARE FREE!!!!!!!!!! on September 7, 2009 - Monday - 10:01 AM [Reply to this]

	BC Beneke	Now we all stand here as children of now. We are not our past glory or pain we are the rising sun of change!   Posted by BC Beneke on September 5, 2009 - Saturday - 7:59 AM [Reply to this]

	EDIEMAY -- SMILES ARE FREE!!!!!!!!!!	AMEN   Posted by EDIEMAY -- SMILES ARE FREE!!!!!!!!!! on September 7, 2009 - Monday - 7:38 PM [Reply to this]

	Valerie	Good to see you back.   Posted by Valerie on September 5, 2009 - Saturday - 11:43 AM [Reply to this]

	Empty Souls	Good stuff   Posted by Empty Souls on September 5, 2009 - Saturday - 7:08 PM [Reply to this]

	Lance Strate	a strong write, Brad!   Posted by Lance Strate on September 6, 2009 - Sunday - 12:27 AM [Reply to this]

	White Lies Axl Snaks	Nice to see your writing again, BC Good words, good work.   Posted by White Lies on September 6, 2009 - Sunday - 4:12 AM [Reply to this]

	Fatima	enjoyed   Posted by Fatima on September 6, 2009 - Sunday - 8:35 AM [Reply to this]

	sadness dances in her eyes	this is very touching.....really liked this :)   Posted by sadness dances in her eyes on September 6, 2009 - Sunday - 11:06 PM [Reply to this]

	BC Beneke	thank you...  it's nice to be back.   Posted by BC Beneke on September 7, 2009 - Monday - 3:02 AM [Reply to this]

	e_piphany	I love this song by Pearl Jam... This write seems to say you are okay with where you are this moment, this time in your life. That you have come to realize who you are.  I hope that no one can ever hold you captive, hold you back. You are very special my friend and at least to me never ever a "second son".    Posted by e_piphany on September 6, 2009 - Sunday - 11:30 PM [Reply to this]

	BC Beneke	Thank you.  I was treated like I was special until my mother had a blood son... and then a lot of my family started to look at me differently...  the other son for lack of a better phrase, and because of that I felt like I was a second class citizen.  I think in some ways it's really helped me with having a deeper empathy for women, and for minorities, and people that have been treated badly...  I felt like I should have been special, and always special (I do have a large ego), and I was being neglected... It wasn't until I came to grips that they were doing the best that they could, and that in some ways they weren't capable of anything but what they did I started to learn to forgive them... and now... now my mom's gone, and to hold a grudge against her at this point would only be a waste of spirit.  She was an amazing grandmother... a world class grandmother... she just wasn't a great mother...  no crime, no failure... just not a job she was born to do.  So I choose to hold onto what she did for my kids, and for me later on as an adult than what was done to me as a child.  I suppose it's a long way to say it, but there is always a way to take anything good or bad... and I decided to choose the good, and I hope that has come through a little bit here...   This poem is about how my mom scarred me, my first time with a girl scarred me, and how in the end it was probably just me scarring myself, and once I stopped... I found love.   Posted by BC Beneke on September 7, 2009 - Monday - 3:01 AM [Reply to this]

	Lola	Hi Brad...that was so good....it shows just how far you have come and just how special you are.....you are loved and will never be second to anyone.....   Posted by Lola on September 9, 2009 - Wednesday - 8:04 PM [Reply to this]

	another voice	i love the fourth and fifth lines BRAVO! damned good to see you back!   Posted by another voice on September 10, 2009 - Thursday - 4:05 AM [Reply to this]