Sometimes
I've gone into my cave
A dark black hole
Without a light
No problems there
Don't feel, don't care
You can't harm me
My soul is bare

I could stay there
My mind tells me
Hide from the world
And all it's hurt
Mean thought and deed
The perfect place
For hate to breed

I can run away
And try to hide
No thoughts, no feelings
Can get inside
Only emptiness can I feel
A lack of love
Of all things real

But then a small light forces me
To look outside
And truly see
The world I run from
The hate, the fear
It holds much more
I'm needed here

How could I be so blind, not see
The ones who'll cry
When I am free
My love, my friends
The children I bore
The tiny infants
I adore

T'would be so easy, wouldn't it
To just leave here
And not look back
No, no my heart says
You can't go
These loveless thoughts
Through tears will flow

© K. Jackson