Life portrait

Alone in life’s twisted views of hope I cry,

darkness around my heart, no fear left to accept.

I walk and believe for something more than this,

but in my searching I have only tasted despair.

No love left to feel inside of anything I see,

selfish hearts in a dying world.

I fail to see the reasons my journey continues,

bringing only more pain than my body can take.

Black my fingernails are inside of my heart even darker,

I wait in limbo for what I will never know.

Misguided I fall broken into pieces by fate’s hands,

ripping apart the only part of me worthy of trust.

Unable to stand I fall into the shadows of life,

blind hearts speaking what my eyes can’t understand.

Emptiness surrounds my every move toward the light,

breaking broken I escape this life within myself.

Trying so hard to just for once see what I feel,

bleeding out on the ground I made my own hell.

No dream worth trying to make this go away,

I stand alone in this image my eyes portray.











Johnny Newell