One person close to me
Is all that I keep
The rest can have my writing
But they can't have me
Averse to getting hurt
or inflicting harm on others
I miss out on the chance
To see them as brothers
Barely even my own...
It's not worth the risk
I told myself today
Using the pain of my past
To justify.. feeling this way
How long can a bond, friendship, or
relationship really last?
When we all change so much
So fast...
I reject society now
No longer the outcast of the past
Not even the 'me'...
Friends and family remember last
Why reconnect?
I don't plan to stay long..
The 'me' they'd get to know now
So why risk?
The pain and humiliation...
Of again... being the reject


April 8, 2008

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