Thrown Away

Thrown away Thrown away To have your love and trust Just thrown away Is what its like to be betrayed Children lost But the childhood remains Thrown away Is all that remains To eat at your own heart Everyday To swallow all the times You could not say Not describe in anyway How I love you Thrown away Children last so it seems To escape at last From the haunted dreams Of thrown away To wake up and not believe in anything Unable to touch A single thing To open your eyes each and every day Is what its like to be To be thrown away Children smile or so it seems An innocent mask to drown out screams A confusion of stabs to hide behind A quiet curtain In the mind And there is no confidence Not in anything There is no love or trust No not even in the crouching corner Or the cowering cringe Of self protecting arms and hands There only one safety The safety within The blank and awful darkness Sucking you in And throwing your life away Every door in your soul is closed Every smile a moment of betrayal One life to believe One life to become Someone Who Wasn’t Isn’t Thrown away

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Kristin Reynolds

Date: 3/29/2009 2:00:00 AM

Man...this was (is within that small voice of a child that will always exisit within me) me. thrown away..twice scourned, if it were not for my Grandmother saving my life literally, God knows where I'd be now. a haunting, all too real poem. love, Kristin P.s-I'm well, just really really busy writing a novel that suits this poem well. :)

Aleera De La Keur

Date: 3/27/2009 8:58:00 PM

Very sad write. Its painful to be a throw away child, even as you get older, the pain never really goes away, other things just mask it. This poem REALLY hit home, and while for you, I hope it is fantasy, but for those of us that have endured this painful plight, you described it perfectly. Great write, Love a throw away child.....Aleera

Sharon Winter

Date: 3/27/2009 6:28:00 PM

This is so painful and difficult to read, like a knife in the heart. Having trouble commenting, it is just making me cry. So sorry Colin. No child should be thrown away, no one. Love, Shar

Christopher Higgins

Date: 3/27/2009 4:49:00 PM

Brother you did an outstanding job painting the pain...lack of trust...hurt..once the trust is gone it seems to affect ever area of one's life....you did a great job with this piece.

Lucinda Bulger

Date: 3/27/2009 2:03:00 PM

May we all realize that we have a bigger purpose in our lives.... :) and beyond the blue of the sky, and the oceans depth at night... Loved this profoundly expressed piece! Thank you for sharing it. It is truly a pleasure to read your work that so often provokes thought. My best regards to you and a certain writing success to come, Lucinda

Lucinda Bulger

Date: 3/27/2009 2:00:00 PM

I told her gently that she did not have to hurt me to make me realize I had to get it together, that it actually worked negatively upon me.. getting terrible result. Although, with repect I told her how I knew deeply that she just wanted me to do better. "I am me" I said, I cannot be anything but that. ~smile Colin, we all have been thrown away by someone, not to mention how society preys on weakness. Jesus Himself, on the cross said "why has thou forsaken me?" cont~

Lucinda Bulger

Date: 3/27/2009 1:55:00 PM

You know Colin, I have struggled most of my life by being "thrown away" especially from my mother. She is 77, a very stern woman that has always at her best gave me ridicule and negativity for my positve in life... sad, but true. My dad, always loved me for who I was, giving me lessons in life, while she never had the time with her worldly pressures. Just today, when speaking to her about a conversation we had a couple days ago: where she made me out to be someone I definitely wasn't... cont~