Take All

Story ID:	1807
Written by:	Stacy Lynn Stiles (bio, contact, other stories)
Story type:	Poem
Location:	Tomah WI USA
Year:	2007

Take my fortune
Take my fame
Take my pride
Leave me in shame

Take my sanity
Take my soul
Take my dignity
Leave me without control

Take my compassion, take my pride
Take my faithfulness too
Take my entire life as well
For the man you’ve become is not the man I once knew

Take my dreams
Take my freedom
Take my voice as well
For the conscious and love you once had;
Those traits have now expelled

Take everything without regret or any empathy to bestow
But you my love will never take
The love for my girls which forever continues to grow