Good-bye innocence When I close my eyes I fall into my escape My only hope my last thread Is slowly breaking We are children nothing less Innocence we are suppose to have When adults can’t deal And blame the rest Our little hearts are the last to be considered Us little children now are grown Either are living the way our parents have shown Or are stranded on our own trying to have the best life possible But our past has a grip on our heart still Never to let go When we beg,plead, and cry grief looks us straight in the eye When ever we start to escape our hearts are in our past Left with an empty shell No feeling,no life Just a puppet going through the waves of life Trying to regain hope, innocence, and life What was once lost has been restored Because us little children are strong Us little children don’t allow anything to drag us down Us little children who are suppose to have innocence has been exposed naked and bear Little children are strong when you get down to it Us little children can’t be touched What once was an empty shell now has life When I was innocent When I was a child I wish my parents were right I wished they had warned me I wish they hadn’t exposed me to a life of drugs and horror I’m one of the lucky ones I have hope and life Even when grief looks at me and expects me to fall I get up with chains strapping me down I yell and scream and put up a fight I break away and run for my life So to my parent all I have to say I know you aren’t sorry so go away I have had blows that hurt so much even when you were their you looked away So go and run back to where you fit in most Good bye the child like me who had innocence and hope I’m sorry but I have to grow up now It’s not that I want to but for my sake It’s better if you stay locked away So good bye me the one I desire And hello the person I am going to be A shell with some feelings and hope That will gradually learn to live again