2016 collection

You don't know (Propie)

 You don't know

You don't know faith

Until there is only one way

The only one you need

Where there is no choice

But to pray, to believe that you will get that one thing

Because if you don't, everything shatters.

You don't know fear

Until you've stared death in the face

And begged him, not to spare you

But to end it, to end the hurt

Then he turns a deaf ear to your plea.

You don't know loss

Until that one thing

That's kept you going

Your only hope, what you live for

Is taken away from your pleading eyes

And thrown under someone's bus.

You don't know pain

Until you've bled inside

Swam in the red of your tainted blood

Drowned internally

And it became your daily reality.

You don't know people

Until they choke you with insults

Belittle your dreams

Step on your heart, crush it

Contaminate your soul with hate

And do it over and over again.

You don't know life

Until you see a cold dead body

Discover it's yours, another lost soul

Who never really lived, you ask yourself

"I know I have done wrong

But how much more could I take?"

You don't know me

Until my life's work is all I've left behind

Even then, too many will never know

The girl who looked in the mirror

Saw fear, loss, pain, was hurt by people and life

Her faith failed, what happiness she found

Was snatched from her grip.