This is my first memory
Consciousness 'born' at the age of three
Abandonment, nobody's here with me
What happened to all of my family?

Looking around the store panicking
What happened to mommy and dad?
Does anybody even realize I'm missing?
Will I ever see them again?

What if somebody comes and steals me?
How will I ever let them know?
Who are all these people around me?
Should I act invisible, until they all go?

Doesn't anybody want me?
Was I such a bad kid?
Everybody else has somebody
I don't even know what I did!

I'm giving up hope, this must be the end
I must have been left behind on purpose
They're better off without me, I guess
I just wanted somebody to love me.. and want me

Will I ever be found?
Or be at home safe again?
Did I get left behind?
Is that myself I hear screaming?

Hopeless, alone and it must've been my fault
Everything I knew has been taken away from me
A reject from the start? Something born wrong with me?
But yea... there you go... this is my first memory


June 15, 2008

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