The Child In Me

There's a child inside
Encaged  in my soul
He is embraced by the innocence 
That adulthood stole 

His naive eyes see
What the wiser men have missed
The good in everyone
That now ceases to exist 

He sees the veiled beauty 
In every droplet of icy rain
He hopes for a sliver joy
After the sombre pain

And he realizes the truth 
That elders have ignore
An infant isn't born
Filled with abhor 

It's circumstances and time
That mold the heart and mind
They hurt and break others
But once they were kind

No one comes into this world thinking
I wish to murder, rape, and abuse
But when up against life
They were left shattered and bruised 

So they make bad choices
And they spit in each others face
They all fight and claw like savages
To get ahead in life's race

They miss the little things
Like the beauty in making another smile
Everyone is busy hating
And love stands silent another while  

The bitter poison turns  acid
As it flows from sugar frosted lips
And you hack and cough your slime
Onto the weak who will lose their grips 

You forget who you were
A face in the mirror you can't recall
The shadow walks up straight
While the wounded past does a pitiful crawl 

And now as I stand in a ring with life
Face to face in hopeless combat
And give it my all
Before falling flat 

I may not win this battle
Or the other coming few
But I'm trying my best 
To make it through

There's a child inside me
And he clenches onto his corner tight 
Because as time ticks by
He knows he's losing the fight