This One is For You

You can never hide from yourself. You will never know life. You do not understand communication. You will never feel love.

You are trapped within your own mind. You hear voices and you respond accordingly. You never speak of your thoughts openly. You don’t know who or what you are supposed to be, having worn so many faces.

You have seen too much in your lifetime. You have no boundaries and no aspirations. You have given up on the possibility of truth. You cannot fathom the idea of children.

You gave up your body freely. You sold your flesh to make ends meet. You find pain excruciatingly amusing. You find sensitivity a waste of emotion.

You drink to recall your lack of inhibition. You are continually drugged from the abuses of the past.

You lose sleep trying to create your face for the next day. You grow tired from exposure with the world.

You are haunted by visions long since gone. You are reminded of your youth by affliction.

By age seven, you witnessed a murder.
By age ten, you discovered your dead friend.
By age thirteen, you gave up your body.
By age fourteen, you lost your soul.

By age twenty, you believed you could do better.
By age twenty-three, you forgot who you were.
By age twenty-five, you discovered life again.
By age thirty, you became enlightened.

You can no longer live for others. You do not owe penance for having to experience life. Death holds no dominion over your decisions. Drugs no longer control you. You need not blame others for your actions. You should never make excuses for yourself.

It is time for YOU.