Scorned (Part 2 of This World)

Written in 2002

 

Here I am cold and alone

Cast down by the ones I loved

Tossed to and fro by the waves of life

Belittled and scorned

By those who were once friends

They now point and laugh

The hopelessness of this world

Overpowers me and casts me aside

Like rotten garbage

Their harsh words cut my being deeply

I reach up for help to one bright light

But she rebukes me, shoving me back

And expressing the same words as those before

Shivering and alone

I flounder in the sea of life

Grasping at the rocks

Trying desperately to pull myself ashore

Each time I get a foothold

Another wave plows my head into the rocks

Knocking me unconscious

And the tide takes me back out to sea

If only that one bright light

Would have shown me an ounce of compassion

I would be safe and warm by her fire

Instead I am in this freezing water

Trying to stay alive and gasping for air

I cannot hold on for long

I plead for help

But my cries fall on deaf ears
Losing my voice, I slip silently to the waves
And depart from this cruel world…