All things dark, all things troubling, all the pain in my life comes from one event. |
-You Mean Nothing At All - by Keaton Foster Something Nothing Wanting Deeply desiring Both Singular events To be multiplied Then amplified Reciprocation Would you friend Grant this man His needed vacation Not a place Or point in time But rather An escape From what is me Relief When there is none Freedom unsung Adhere to the message Get the point Let me further add To aid in developing Compassion required You mean Nothing at all Is what they said Their holiest of pretext Simple it now seems They gave me away With no shame They turned their backs Heading Towards an escape But Before they left They did an about face Looking, pointing At me At those in charge Calmly They reiterated They profoundly stated This child This terrible boy Does not deserve What WE have What’s offered As he grows As he further knows Tell him Each And every new day After this one That he alone Does not belong That he Is a mistake A sin if there is Such a tedious thing His life His existence Not a blessing But rather an accident God above knows He has assured us Via his sacred word That what we are doing By leaving him here Is both right And righteous Easily They were at the end The few lines spoken Like weights Around my heart and soul Forever I have since carried At times The load is too great The pain of such A burdensome weight Wears on me constantly They said nothing else Those who gave me life They left me alone Never would I Or anyone else See them again They would disappear Into a world That few are part of Sometimes I sit in the dark And wonder to myself “What If?” Sometimes I want to know What happened to them But most of the time Certainly I don’t You mean Nothing at all Is what they said What I heard From that day on Those words Have become part of me At the core of my foundation I wish for just a few moments That someone Could take them from me That someone could erase them But no one can No one has that power That ability to make me forget To allow me to relent… You Mean Nothing At All Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014. |