When you reflect on your life
You see the choices you made
Sometimes not so pro-active
And the choices were made for you
Every choice has consequences

Walking through the dark alley
Ignoring the parallel road, well lit
Never wanting to expose the secret chambers
Feelings comforted by darkness
Fearing light will bring them to limelight

The things you ignore
Can become your nemesis

The scariest moments are those when you don’t recognize yourself

You entered the mind
With the sinister intention
To kick out the happy thoughts
And abuse the space
Given to you as privilege
Now that you have taken it hostage
You have made it a place of slander
Deep wounds within
Cloaked from the world outside
You stealthily carry on the violence
A silent atrocity

Don’t nurture the seeds of fear
Planted by the coward few
Which will pull you underground
Roots entrenched deep within
The crevices where toxicity breeds
Feeding off the darkness and blood
Giving rise to anarchy
So many dying in oblivion
Deprived of the sunshine of love

With red ink I drafted the colorless events
Painfully, the life dripping away
Leaving it in resplendent paleness