I remember a time not too long ago
When I was but a child ready to learn and grow
The great wide world lay majestically before me
A world full of wonder & opportunity

Those days, now way back then
Still held hopeful for my fellow men
It was lifetimes ago or so it seems
Back when I still clung to hopes and dreams

Now I look at how much has changed
I could never have foreseen a life so strange
One that was doomed before the start
A life that was tainted by the heart

I had enough love to fill the seas
But the world quickly brought me to my knees
It left me mangled, badly...