Take A Look...

Close your eyes...

As the fore front

Of recollection are all...

Of the damage I inflicted 

Those acts that were never...

Forgotten...

Outlooked...

Were everything I ever accomplished 

Me wearing my emotions 

Front in center...

Was the the target also 

For my my pain to be on full display 

My strength was my weakness 

In being strong for others

I often found myself weak and alone

With no one talk too...

I penned words like these...

To you...

Through my failures 

I yearned to guide those to avoid 

Within my compassion

My frustration was fueled

Strived to instill more

Repeatedly saying

Be better than me

Knowing I wasn't meant to be here...

Understanding that I needed you here...

I never knew...

Neither did I ever understand...

Just how deep my imprint has been pressed

Until the day...

I sat in a place where I hadn't 

Since the days of my youth

To finally slow enough 

To take a closer look...