A Life Given Up
No color
No possible brightness
Nor vivid happiness
Just a world devoid of life
A shell
Staring blankly through a portal
A portal with life beyond
A life he had once craved
Seen as his future
Seen as his place in time
Oh how he had dreamed
Pictured freedom from his tedious existence
His monotonous movements
A crack in the shell
Letting the light spill forth
But tragedy had stolen this from him
Had drained the light from the crack
Emptying his hopeful imaginings
Now he does his duties as he was taught
Works as he was taught
Acts as he was taught
Clinging in vain to ideas of the people
The people that had begged him to stay secure
The people he had rebelled against
The people that were now missing from his view
From the life that he had given up
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