Yesterday Words
I need to remember it Like it was yesterday The good yesterday Not the one that broke my heart But it’s hard These days to know The difference It’s different Than it used to be We use to be Soft words And smiles And while we were These things The end crept in Disguised as baggage It ravaged From the inside out Smiles began to harden Hugs faded quietly to black In fact The darkness came upon us Like a fog Caressing us, Enveloping our sense of us Ensuring of its doubtless truth And we believed We began to see Shadows where once there was clarity Weakness where once we felt strength It whispered to us And guided us away From the home that we were And as the last of our fingertips touched We rushed To savor the taste of anger, and pain To shout our truths Harshly into the wind To be the one who owned The most hurt, the most suffering “There is no victim greater than I” Is the anthem that plagued us Tha...