Blinding Trust Poem by Nick Kler

It takes more than a decade
To finally build up faith
That lets you relinquish your trust
In someone else

You've been stabbed
Behind your back
A million times before

Those that you trusted the most
In a blinded kinda way
Stripped away your every right
Left you by the roadside
For people to laugh at you

Finally, you are on your on
Quietly pulling away
From everyone you ever knew
Oh! It is hell to pay
Cuts so deep into the womb

All your options
are now exhausted
You do what you have to
And safely move out
into the unknown

They still send
their thieves to me
Silently stalking me
In and out of my room
Desperately looking for

Any fragility in me
Wanting to drag me
Back into their world again

Sorry, but this time
I've travelled
A bit too far

Nick Kler