How Many Times Must you Bleed?

When I was first touched by you

I hoped it would be something true

Like I could reach out and touch a sky of blue

It was more than you being something new,

Expectations turn to glass

Like a solid celestial mass

Hopefully those sorrows will pass

Lay me down in a bed of grass,

Abandonment is pain

Human nature is insane

Always over something you can gain

All efforts seem to be in vain,

Forever adrift in this emerald sea

Allowing the trees to breath for me

Things that will never set you free

Life is an unpredictable odyssey,

I can sense the tears in the air

I can feel your hurt and despair

The way you run your hands through your hair

As if no one will ever be there,

The answers you seek seem so far away

Like begging an estranged lover to stay

What’s that that you say?

All humanity has gone astray,

How many times must you bleed?

It’s a fool’s paradise indeed

All these barbaric fools should never breed

It’s everywhere that I witness this greed.