When do you lose
Your Childhood?
Your Innocence?

Was it when I was 5
And I said
"I'm a big boy now"?
Or is it when I'm 18
And the government tells me who I am?

Actually, it's neither
I was stripped, robbed of my innocence

When I was 15
He told my mother
"The last 18 years were the worst of my life"
And I didn't react

I was robbed of my childhood
When I was 16
and He told me he didn't like
"What you are"
And He said
"You can pack your ****, and you know where the door is"
And I just stood there
Silent

I no longer have my innocence
I no longer have my childhood
But I am not yet a man
I am the gray area in between
And that's all I will ever be