Life

You start by seeing sunshine.

Rays of light beam on you as you cry.

But the cries are empty,

Just the screams of a baby.

Soon though you start to grow,

You start to see things of which you didn’t know.

But you shake it off, you have nothing to say,

Off to the grass, to frolic and play.

Those were the days when your smile reached your eyes,

When your grins weren’t lies.

You hadn’t a care in the world,

You played in your room, where you danced and twirled.

A few years later you start to see,

Things aren’t as okay as they seemed to be.

You can see the stress

You can see the regrets.

Then you come upon problems of your own,

They seem silly though, so no one knows.

You keep them to yourself,

Stuff them in a bottle and shove them on a shelf.

But it becomes too much, your bottle bursts

Exploding with your pain, anger, and hurt.

They wash over you like a wave from the ocean.

Drowning you in a boat load of emotion.

Now it’s out of control,

Everything they say burns you like coal.

So you lock yourself in,

It’s the only option.

Spend the rest of your days

locked up and away,

until the end when it’s done,

then your life’s gone.