Another Crippled Soldier's blog: "brand new poem"

come now and watch watch these children snatched from their families forced to play with their little toy guns boys and girls running scared as others chase them other children watch the game from the sides yet even though they refuse to play they still get hurt big kids little kids all forced to play an unwanted game watch them all cry and scream taken by other kids offered up to the biggest kids who make the rules they are stripped of their lives locked up til the game is over but when will the game be over when will the big kids let us put our toys away when can we return to our families to play the games we like when.....

You say you'll always love me Funny how you can love others And yet you can't even love yourself You pour your heart out to me with ease Almost as easily as your blood and tears pour when you're alone You say you'll always be there for me And yet every time I look around All I seem to find is dust covered photos of better days Days when you really were within reach But now I can't find a trace of them or you You say I'm the only one you see How can you truly see me with those cold, lonely eyes Eyes that sting with pain and hatred of all things love You see through me to those who have caused your pain You've never seen me because in me you can only see them You smile at me with the sweetest lips the world has seen But behind it you grit your teeth in anguish and disgust I see the blood on your lips from you biting your tongue Its all you can do as you try to force out these words Forcing out your pretty little lies

Dead and lost am i forever gone down this river of souls aimlessly wandering searching for reason reason to live again reason to love again as i search i see a light but is this light mine or is it waiting for another traveler searching for his reason i care not for this light shall be mine i shall steal it and keep it hidden hidden from all til it shines shines so bright its rays break forth from it cage shattering it into millons of tiny pieces pieces that match my hearts own tiny pieces oh how i pity my heart and my cage broken for all time never to be fixed but the light takes pity on me she helps to rebuild my cage but makes it her own she rebuilds my heart but only to put it in her new cage binding my heart to her for my heart is hers now and forever now my heart feels only her light and aches when others hide her light my heart burns at the touch of the light of another