A Shadowed Pride

A Shadowed Pride

A child... To young…

For these burdens…

No dignity… No worth…

Forces him to grow and bare this weight

Crushed… under the disappointment.

Father why!

Too long I sat in shadow,

Tried to be everything

You wanted me to be.

Armed only with his wounds to show

Scared… deep on the inside, so cold.

Father don’t!!

Don’t scrutinize me

Swallow your pride and

Hold your breath…

Judge me no longer…

Now I will be free from control.

Hold on to every lesson learnt,

I won’t let this be again.

I curse the words you never spoke to me

And only I will define who I am,

Because I can be so much more

I just need to break away…

FATHER!!!

Made me grow up to fast,

Only to let me down and

Left me with no path to follow

Throw away your disgust.

Throw away your pride.

Take that blunt stare

Take that dead husk.

Take it all away.

I have no use for it now.

Leave in search of something,

Something that matters to me

My time to finally slip away,

To a vale far over mountains

Because there’s no love here for me…

Nothing for me here…