Ups and downs

Tongue sharp as a dagger
It guarded your heart
Pretty mean they deemed you
Right from the start

But your beauty it seized me
And I knew your defense
It had been my friend for too long
Hiding a pain so intense

You sought after my love
In your shell I discovered
The piece I was missing
Without you as my lover

So we played in the park
Rebelled hand in hand
Cut lips with our braces
Our next meeting we planned

You gave me your heart
But I was a fool
And the distance grew deeper
Not a word spoke at school

Fate must have sighed
What is it youve done!
Now suffer alone
In this web you have spun

And suffer I did
My own personal hell
Institution to institution
My home was a cell

What was the rhyme and reason
For this heathen seeking Eden
Born of sin and heroin
I was left ashamed and beaten

I resolved to do different
One fall day I was blessed
To catch the eye of my darling
My heart beat from my chest

We were older and scarred
Still couldn't keep us apart
For my love for you burned
As it had from the start

We made love and shared pain
Of a world that was cruel
But I took it as it were granted
I was still that young fool

I have found that in life
you get just what you deserve
I wrote my own sentence
And Kicked myself to the curb

But I am down, not out
I am beaten, not broken
I will fight till the end
No truer words have been spoken