What's left

Collateral Pain

Agonizing clarity is

being ripped from

your family

cast into the darkness

encased in the clutches of

foster care

You grow up, not knowing

how to get out 

because the streets are all you know

And you also dream

of better things

Like a room to stay in for more than a month

Or not staying up at night

worried about tomorrow

because as a kid in CPS

tomorrow promises nothing

Agonizing Clarity is 

Looking in the mirror

seeing a stranger

a face that isn't your ow

A face transformed by grief

Sculpted by tragedy

and glazed over like glass

Agonizing Clarity is when

your old friends don't

recognize your voice

anymore

because the tears and the smoke

got caught in your lungs

and lingers

You never know where you'll go next

or when: You just know it's soon

So you don't unpack

You know things change so fast on the streets

So you never leave the house

without the necessitates

whether it be photographs

money, or jewelry

You learn to hide your emotion behind a mask

of calm so you never give anyone the power to hurt you

You never let 'em see

how much it hurt

to be passed from home to home

not meaning to push them away but

you always do

in the end

In the end

Agonizing Clarity

is all you have left.

Reviews

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