Looking Beyond

I know the look I see on your face, it's a look I know too well.
Of shackled hearts and broken parts and secrets you can't tell
You're standing on the outside of the world and looking in.
At the cruelty and malice, at the sanctity and sin
Burdened by a vision you don't fully understand.
You gaze into the heavens trying to piece the master plan.
The beauty of the world you see within your leveled gaze.
Mangled by the hands of hate an innocence betrayed.
A world of pain, of hurt and fear laid out for you to see.
Conflicting with the sunshine dreams of how things ought to be.
You stare at faraway horizons promising new days.
And look for light beyond the clouds where silver linings lay.