I have lived in a life of shadows..
I have walked through
darkness as black as space..
Learned to survive alone..
I have turned my back..
On light it seems..
Not trusting what I see..
Light offers illusions..
Darkness offers dreams..
I swim in shallow water..
but find this far to deep.
I see
Anger in society..
I see
Children who cannot speak..
I see..
The youth have become actors.
 They even dress the part..
they call it individuality..
but I wonder..
If they to
are in this dark..
I see life..
but there is no living..
Hope..
in the eyes of the elderly..
Loneliness
Desperation..
In the eyes of my own son.
Trying to find where he belongs..
In a world ..
that he must act..
He thinks I don't understand..
He knows not..
I once was him..
Walking these same thin lines..
Pondering all the same questions..
Thinking life is not worth my time..
But waiting for that hope...
Waiting for that one sign..
To show I belong..
Just enough..
To pull me along..
one more day...
I pray he learns to jump into life..
He is different from most..
Don't let that stop..
What I know is in his heart..
He could really make a difference..
If he only understood..
Life passes so quickly..
Can't let fear get in your way..
Must reach for life ...
Within yourself be free...
Just let your spirit lead you..
to where you should be.