Mother, I have failed you,
         Participated in the destruction
         Of the beautiful land you gave us.
                I have cleared away emerald life,
                And replaced it with stone,
                Building metal towers
                As hollow as my soul.

         Mother, I have failed you,
         Joined the hunts and butchery
         That so indifferently rip apart children.
                A decade I stood strong
                Against the cruelty of it all,
                But I was weak, and they pushed,
                And so, I did fall.

         Mother, I have failed you,
         Disobeying natural patience
         And giving in, throwing away the virtue
                I thought I wanted to,
                So I allowed the lust  
                To consume me,
                I thought that I must.

                                    The petals fell from the adolescent tree
                                     And fluttered in the winds of change.
                                       I'm sorry, Mother, for growing up,
                                        And entering a world so strange.