Champagne footprints of the moon

echoed on the wandering stream.

Loss of innocence reflects my shadow,

vacant face of violator flows forever.

Wounded soul sieves through memory

liquefied moment he stole my spirit

leaving bittersweet drops of strength

fleeting mirror of what I could have been.

I wore your clothes

I walked your swagger

I spoke your tongue

And smoked your cancer.

I lost my friend

I lost my lover

I lost my daughters dad

When you went six feet under.

My greatest lost was not yourself;

But me as a person.

A child's mind

Easily exploited

Rewritten memories

Forgotten truths

Mother's love

Unwanted & rejected

Father's command

Emulated & admired

Mother escaped

Freedom hardwon

A tyrant vows revenge

Cruelest torture

She'll regret, she'll beg

When her children

Become vessels of hate

Liberation purchased

At unimaginable cost

Was it worth it?

She's broken & alone

A friend? A foe?

An experience I will never know. 

A day I will never have. 

A memory we will never share.

My greatest loss is out there. 

Man or Beast? Good or Bad?

Would you be the best I never had? 

All because I chose fear instead of

You.

A path I was set to walk.

Until I turned away.

The call of a waterfall in the distance.

Forests all around.

Too young and stupid and week to fight it.

I step off my unpaved road

and venture to the unknown's call.

Lost in an other world.

My greatest loss was myself.

And ohhh how i mourn.