Broken
An uncomfortable silence when you walk into a room
Everyone looking at each other but looking away too soon
How can a deployment this easy be so hard?
How did we go from being friends to looking at each other from afar?
Everyone holds their tongue not wanting to be the first to speak
No one wants to be the first to look weak
How do we fix this?
Where do we go from here?
What is it that has us all frozen in fear?
Friends turning on friends in hopes to get ahead
Only later to regret what they did
But by then it's too late that bridge has been burned
People are forced through lessons they didn't think they'd learn
This brokenness lies on us and that's the truth at the end
Surrounded by strangers that were once friends
Copyright © Melissa Cooper | Year Posted 2015
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