Taken

What I have lost

Its been taken from me
My Hope
My dreams
My Life
My Soul

Its been taken from me
My control
My self-respect
Even my regrets

It has all been taken from me
My flesh
My blood
My last once of self-control

You have taken from me
My sons
My daughter
My dying boys laughter

You truly stole it from me
Everything I have
Everything I am
Everything I was

You took control of me
My dreams
My feelings
My inner dealings

You have cunningly swindle
My very being
My spiritual meaning
My kind feelings

You have left me with nothing
Bare
Naked
Hungry

You made sure I have nothing left
You robbed me of my rest
Even the chance to protest

You only left me
With a heart
Rotting in my chest

Author's Note

You never know what you can steal from a person, unless you are humble enough to listen deeper then your ears. This is a lesson no one close to me has learned. So I suffer.

Reviews

[deadly healer]

i love the last stanza

'you left me
with a heart
rotting in my chest'

it was very hard to recover from those line. i loved them how they seem to take your breath away

[Jennika has a short att..]

In the third stanza, did you mean 'ounce of regret'? Sorry, I had to read it three times because it confused me :/ Anywho, nice poem, even though I'm sure it's far from being 'nice' more like 'down' or 'worthless'. Eh, what do I know?

[Randy`s Princess]

oh this is real good honestly true emotion and real feeling I could hear the pain in the words well done :)

[JENY]

No that will not happen….
If all the above things took away from you….
Then what is “You”?
Where are “You”?
Do not be this much pessimistic…..
Even if it is in a poem….ok?
Anyway…nice work…

[Ashley Black]

I love the display of emotions and lesson behind it very very good :]

[Coyote Poetry]

Poem is powerful. I feel the disappointment and pain in your words. Complete poem is a tale of disappointment with a poor future in sight. A excellent poem. I like the power and strength in the poem.
Coyote

[FeliciaS (Poetic Prince..]

I can relate

[little lily Bride of Ch..]

Oh wow I did'nt even know this happened i am very sorry to hear of this. beautiful write

[Jessica Mai]

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME. This is really good. This speaks mountains to me. I am overwhelmed by the emotion you radiated through this. This is a great great poem.

[James Watts]

So true, my friend. And this was an excellent piece. I could feel the pain, the emptiness in the actions that brought forth these words. Nice write.