Infant Poem by Patrick Maness

You fit in my arms like an infant

so tender so fragile

innocent to this twisted world

or so i thought

hiding deep down were crippling fears and nightmares

i seen those things

i knew your fears before i knew my own

the fear of being alone

losing you

so i ran

i took off like a bird in the brezze

hid myself behind a play on words

wrapped in a cacoon of similes and methiphors

like an infant

safe

secure

sealed away in my mind

I grew and changed

formed myself into the man i wanted to be

so i could save you

save you from being alone

from being scared

long ago i told myself if i could save one person

my life will have been worth something

maybe i could make a difffrence

heres to my failed attempts

learning from my mistakes

you fit in my arms like an infant

so tender so fragile

so innocent to this twisted world

Or so i thought