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 hurt and scarred
I tried to miss the pain, I tried so hard

But the weight of this world became far too heavy
And my shattered heart was left so unsteady
My only choice to protect it now
Was to numb it to all the pain somehow

The saddest part is what comes next
A reality that no one might have guessed
My broken heart left pained and frail
Succumbed to the damage the world would impale

I grew bitter and my heart went cold
The world has left me weak and old
The sun no longer shines in my skies
The beauty of life ripped from my eyes

Nothing now can ever be the same
My skies have darkened from all the rain
I just miss the life I had so long ago
Before I knew the eternal fate of my soul

Back when I still harbored my hopes and dreams
When I was still blinded to everything
My infancy kept me seeing through a veil
In a world that existed without a hell

© Amanda.Humphrey