Awaken to Life

By Mariah Grove

Some people refuse to see everything in life for what it really is and overlook some of the little things that could potentially hurt someone. Awaken to Life shows life from different perspectives such as from being homeless, to being a troubled teen in love or heartbroken, to what it is like in a chaotic household as a child. Challenges like losing someone close and gaining back your strength to get through the day, and what is yet to come in life are covered. In Awaken to Life, no one is invisible, and it describes in detail perspectives that people try to deny exist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Feb 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466915114

Mariah Grove

Residing in Indiana, sixteen-year-old Mariah Grove finds solace in writing. Growing up with different experiences than her peers, she found a way to tell not only her story but others’ as well through her poems. This fun-loving individual is athletic and has numerous passions in life.

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Contents

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What Lies Beneath

Heartless

Darkness

The Mask

From Another Perspective

Silence

Just A Number

Alone and Ignored

Unwanted and Unloved

Pure Innocence

From the Heart

Love

The Truth I Hide

Your Best Friend

Secret Love

Standstill

On the Inside

A Ruby Jewel

Daydream

A Promise by Repair

A Home for Hearts

Our December

Here and There

Of Many Places

There’s Always a Happy Ending

An Intellectual Puppet

Dark Love

The Chase

One Dream

Heartaches

The Agony of Love

Forever More

Without You

Left Broken

Foolish Hearted Ghost

Still I Cannot

Goodbye

Love, Pain, and Sorrow

Little Red Pieces

Dead Love

Tales of Woe

The Murder of Love

Game of Love

Loved the Wrong Way

Forgotten

Stronger

The Truth Behind Closed Doors

Untold

A Secret

This Pain

Remembrance

Stuck In The Past

An Assisted Death

A Tragic Love Story

House of Broken Spirits

One Bullet

Death’s Prisoner

Dealing With Death

One More Prayer

Only Remembered

Still One Remains

Experience

A Simple Stress Reliever

Ideas

Just For Fun

Unspoken Companions

Samson

An Inanimate Companion

Change

T o look in the mirror and not recognize who’s looking back at you

To speak and the voice that comes back to your ears

Is no longer yours

You’ve changed so much

You don’t even recognize yourself

Who are you?

You don’t know who you are

And neither do I

Who you’ve become is someone so irrecoverably different

Why did you change?

To not recognize yourself is something terrible

But to not know God is a sin

To not register the knowledge of who you used to be

To not know yourself

To be so foreign

Tis it a crime?

Have you robbed yourself of the truth

Truth being who you used to be

A thief is what you are

To yourself

You stole your identity

The old you is no longer

Change can be good

But you changed for the worse

To see the world with your eyes

To think you feel everything has changed

But what you don’t know is

The world hasn’t changed

Only you have

Looking again in that mirror

Who is that?

Because no one else knows anymore

Not even you

What Lies Beneath

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Heartless

T he sight of you

Burns the eyes.

Your soul is cold and black.

No one likes you,

You say you have friends; however

They’re fake.

They lie to you

Because no one could like someone like you.

Heartless

Soulless

Self-centered and evil

Is what you are.

There’s so much hate for you

Even the devil laughs at your hatred.

You’re not human,

You are a pawn on the chess board.

Being used to other’s advantage;

However you don’t see it.

Why?

Because you’re too obsessed over yourself

To even notice others.

You claim to love others

But for you it’s impossible.

That horrid body of yours does not contain a heart.

There is no blood flow to you.

After all you don’t have a heart

It’s just a cold black stone.

Darkness

T he layers