The first time I met you, I was lost...

A shell of a man battling the entire world....

I found help that was beyond my control,

utter chaos ensued and ruined my life.

Such an angel as you in an unholy realm!

Finding me fallen, upon the ground.

 

I remember laying there upon that ground,

thinking about all I'd gambled and lost....

How I thought I had searched every realm,

everywhere inside and out of this world....

Weeping over and over about my lost life,

never realizing I had lost complete control.

 

YOU would help me regain some control.

YOU had appeared to lift me from the ground.

YOU supported me and granted me new life.

YOU allowed me to recant some of what was lost.

YOU stood up and became my very world!

AND I blew it.  So you banished me to another realm.

 

One shot?  Only one, and then damned to this realm?

Surely you can see that I now have some control?

You care not that you crushed my trivial little world?

Can't you see that my feet are now ON the ground?

Why is it that I have to again be lost?

I guess for now I will simply live my life.

 

I miss you.  I find this to be such an uncomfortable life...

Going about my business everyday in this forsaken realm.

Can I not have one more chance before all is lost?

I guess no one person should have total control...

Nor the ability to bury someone’s emotions under ground.

So maybe I should not have even given you my world.

 

At least now, it is through your eyes in which I see the world,

remembering what joy it was to be in your life.

I must now tread lightly on such unstable ground,

and so I now know to stay well away from your realm.

For the most part I'm calm, steady and under control.

Though I know now how easily all could possibly be lost.

 

Booted by the world, bounced into this terrible realm.

not really liking my life, but at least I'm in control,

feet firmly on the ground, only regretting that you are one I've lost.

 

 

© 2008 J. James Reider