Uh yeah...it looks like everyone's posted a peom in here, so I thought I might as well post one of mine up ^_^; Early warning - it sucks. Really, really sucks. I wrote the frst half (it's petty clear where it breaks) when I was feeling incredibly depressed one day, and then I decided it was too gloomy and self-centered e.t.c. so I stuck the second part on, addressing it to everyone who's ever felt like I did that day - basically saying that it'll be okay ^_^
Dark nights are dawning into blackened days
All your burdens gone their separate ways
Avert your eyes and feel the shame
A thousand others have done the same
Hide away all the trials that ail you
Don’t let them see how lonely they’ve made you
All of the whispers and all of the scars
And the gaping hole where your soul once was
Why should they shape you, force and create you?
Disguise, conform, reform and mistake you?
But don’t let a word escape from your lips
Or in your direction the soft blade slips
And slits the ties between you and your ‘friends’
The fake-fronted sluts who set all the trends
No, keep quiet ‘til the pain gets too much
And no one is taking the blame as such
Because it’s all your fault you’re now alone
You should have spoken, but you’re on your own
Four letters, it seems, is standard word-length
Bitter hatred is your final strength
Come on everyone; let’s hear three cheers
For our precious, enriching teenage years.
Scream aloud if you want to
Try to grasp what was once you
Scour away innocence’s stain
Where’s the fun without the pain?
Recall all memories forgot
And we’ll pray that there’s no God
No God to judge us for what we’ve begun
No God to punish us once we’ve won
No God to love us as He’s always done
This is not the end, and it never will be
Not while there’s something left that’s still ‘me’
Something not robbed from your aching heart
Core of your being, the innermost part
Open your eyes and then open them twice
See past what you thought was now your life
Think back to the child with dusty knees
Who smelt the sky and breathed the trees
Remember the light that shined inside you
Remember the innocence you opened your eyes to
Remember the days before darkness came
The child may be gone, but you are the same
Peel all these fears away from your brain
Feel your own self swim and surface again
The past comes to life as you grow every day
And no one can ever take that away
Whatever they do, hang onto that thought
And one day you’ll look back on the battles you fought
As you watch your children do exactly the same
And life comes full circle again and again
I was and I will be, you were and you shall be
That’s all we can ask for, and all that we can be.
