(When I was a kid)
They taught me how to
Be fearless,
I guess they knew how
Cruel (life) was going
To be.

When I was a kid
(They all said) it (will get
Better);
The war will stop
One day.

When I was a kid
They taught me the art
Of unconditional
Love.

(I am not a kid anymore),
But all the priest's preaching I
Heard when I was a kid, are
Now making sense.

When you preach love,
(Say it once again), it does
Not break through instantly.
Say it with confidence,
(Make me believe).

Wake up!
The world (may be) broken,
But (hope is) not (crazy.)

I'm tired
and torn, and weary
I'm emotionally drained
I'm fighting but constantly losing.

I'm exhausted,
from the inside; in the heart
where all the veins only have scars.

I'm a hopeless romantic,
I'm an aspiring poet, a classical-
music addict. I'm the one drop of rain
in the middle of August, I'm that one player
who lost this game.