Cruel Punishment
Who are you to punish me,
This way, this long
I was punished enough with shame,
Financial burden, and most good things taken away
Who are you to decide this ill fate towards me
Is it not enough you destroy my name,
you take away years of my life, and still not enough
But to take away some joy that may remain
To brand me with the mistake I've made
To change my personality, to take away my friends,
To decide who to love, to decide where I rest my head
You splashed water in my face
To wake me up and so I hardened
There were days that went by, I felt stronger even taller
But like wood you suffocate
Before real sparks can ignite,
Instead it festers, and grows slowly,
Molding, rotting, eating from the inside out
Who are you to choose my life for me
and not even let me drink this pain away
Or escape this cruel reality
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