Is it a step in the right direction
When you're always left behind
When you can't establish a connection
Between reality and your life
When your feet are planted firmly
Upon unstable ground
When your voice is never heard
So you never make a sound
When your nerves are battered numb
So you cannot feel a thing
When the person you've become
Isn't who you want to be
When the only thing remaining
Is the need to end it all
And the only thing your gaining
Is the worry that you'll fall
When you pray to god for answers
Believing in the sky
But religion is a cancer
You're believing in a lie

So dark I've become
And so dismal are they
Now the place that they're from
Only barely remains

Only pockets survive
Yet they still dwell on greed
The only ones who will thrive
Satisfy their own needs

They forget to remember
What their unity did
And instead turn to embers
Of the fires within

In the dark there is light
But they've left it behind
Or they've lost all their sight
Because their hate left them blind

As my existence fades
And comes to a halt
My core will degrade
Light locked in a vault

I remember the times
As I hovered above
And remember the shine
Of a thing they called love

"Where the **** did you go?
Answer me now!
Why the **** don't I know?
Get in the house!
Wipe that look off your face!
Don't you dare ******* smile!
You're a ******* disgrace!
Can't believe you're my child!

Now I'll make it ALL right.
Go lay down on my bed.
Don't you put up a fight!
Or you might end up dead"

"Daddy loves you"
"I love you"
"I love you"
he said

So she put up a fight
Because she'd rather be dead.



(This all happened to a good friend of mine. She asked me to capture these memories in a poem, so I did)

My valentine
Do you remember
When we were blind
So young and tender?
Softened by
The cold December
Our love so warm
Like dying embers