You Saved Me

YOU SAVED ME They saw me fall, and start to crawl, But they turned away and left me alone. My hands to them I tried to lift, But they would not lift me up. I cried a pool as I watched them laugh, Their thin fingers pointed at me, The little strength I had dissolved, As the weight of their hate, their meanness, came crashing down on me. My world grew dim as I watched them go, Their laughter forever mocking Their wounds kicking at me, pinching me where it hurt most I watched as despair seized my heart I listened to my heartbeat willing it to stop But no no way 't had to keep on beating loudly Forcing me to reconcile with the fact that I lived. I was down when I heard the soft whisper, I was alone when I felt your tender touch, I was weak when I felt your mighty strength, There was darkness in me when I felt your light from within, Lifting me up and gently reviving. The shadows of the past you wiped away, The pain of before you erased. Am alive because you live within me. You saved me.