Pain Struck
A life filled with pain, clearly that’s no way to be
And some people couldn’t imagine, all the things that I see
But its one thing I do know, there’s no one out there exactly like me
Many times I feel an outcast, and my days are dark and gray
Then a higher power guides me to the light, and makes me see another day
I’m a man and I won’t deny, sometimes I wish there was another way
Because I wonder, why should people as gifted as me
Should feel so much pain and hate
A life filled with pain, basically all I’ve ever seen
And some people just don’t know how it feels
To walk a strip of grass that never seems to be green
To dream for better days, and work for things you never do receive
And to wake up every morning, looking for all the snakes to leave
Sometimes I sit and pray, that I could have all things my way
A child of my own, that I could raise and show better days
A beneficial job, that does better than what the last paid
And I see that’s just a dream because I still wake to shady days
A life filled with pain, it just seems to be what’s meant for me
And I wake up daily, hoping to once find my destiny
But I am coming to realize, that this is where my life lies
So my many days of pain, there are many more to arise
Then I am sometimes due and given a blessing
That seems to somehow reverse, and leaving me in pain
I still feel I am a man, who deserves so much more out of life
When in the end, it all seems nothing to gain
But the “man in the mirror” tells me, I deserve more than hate and pain
So before I leave this earth, I want to go out with a well known name
By: Quiayren Young
Copyright © Quiayren Young | Year Posted 2011
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