Love Poem: The Day After
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Written by: Daniel Baker

The Day After

Life, by which a mothers death begins my 
forlorn voyage of this forsaken life without hope, 
followed by dreadful visions 
of a world alone.

Death visits with a single slash of a sickle 
from witch an empty shell of a body remains, as I’m left within the
abyss of blackness that misery 
bestows upon me.  

The world around me mutates and folds, 
as the innocents of a child’s mind is 
mutilated, and embodied with 
the eyes of a mans 
tormented soul.

Flesh and blood with arms wide open, 
guiding me home as I am tethered to 
a chain, accompanied with the weight 
of the world, imprisoning me from 
a normal existence of life.

Trap set with hopes of capturing a 
love unconditionally  with 
warming eyes of hope accompanied 
by a soothing voice of security that is 
necessary to a child scared and 
alone to the big would 
around me.

Abandoned at such a young age, 
brings in walls and barriers that 
allows this grief stricken boy shelter 
from the pain held deep within 
my soul allowing access to 
no one.

Within the years to follow a young man
 now has to live with the profound pain and agony 
ensnared within my heart, buried 
deep, protecting myself from the 
torment that my future foretells,
 awaiting to cripple  and maim
 this already broken hart.