Ode To the One I Love

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He was a boy.

All he was; a little boy.

Innocent and unexposed to the world;

Where one decision, one action

would be able to screw oneself over.

Where one decision, one action

screwed him over;

Altered his vision of a perfect life:

The life he thought he'd set for himself;

The life he thought he'd live.

The life he thought he'd set for himself

was in ruins;

Where his mother betrayed him,

his father abandoned him,

and all those around him thought he was no use fighting for.

And soon he fell for the temptations in life;

Fights and "love" and believing more freely

that he was worthless;

That he was no use fighting for. He fell.

And so new places arose

with new faces and aromas;

A new start to life, where nobody knew him.

But what was carried along was too heavy

and all hopes of new life cast away

as it was thought his life of old was the only one worth living.

Even into the days, weeks, months

that he sparked new life in another;

Gave them hope and a will to live.

And when approached he shied away;

Afraid he'd ruin yet another's image of him.

But this image could never be tainted;

An image of an angel,

a saint,

all good in this world

wrapped together into one beautiful person.

Time and time again

it was told how he'd salvaged someone;

How much they appreciated his efforts

and pure light that he'd brought them.

But it never seemed good enough...

And so he lies in wreck at night;

"A screwed up mess," so he says.

Trying to understand what he has,

trying to understand what he's done,

and making himself believe

there is nothing... no one to be worthy for.

But at the same time,

the other lies;

Trying to understand what he has,

trying to understand what to do,

and making himself believe

that there is more to be done to make their savior

truly know how much they are worth.

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