01-07-04 Poem by Cody Osterberg

Not yet a man,
But a child trembling within.
A pitiful soul,
Scarred by sin.
Hollowed in one day,
I will never win.

Crying in a corner,
Seems like I've lost it all.
Faced with my own mortality,
I can no longer stand tall.
Stretched beyond my limits,
I'm terrified of these four walls.

I try not to remember,
But I don't want to forget.
I'm not ready to live,
And I'm not dead yet.
I've seen a lot of hard times,
Alot of things I regret.

One day broke me down,
Nothing will ever be the same.
One moment changed me forever,
I will never outlive the pain.
One unpunished crime,
Left me forever in the rain.