Collateral Damage Poem by Joshua Hillard

I'm coming in, I close my eyes.
Only to see death, I improvise,
My own disguise, I wonder why,
Your heart breaking words,
As death breaks the sky,

Collateral damage to the brain and heart,
No jump start to this pain apart,
From the realm of possibilities,
All you've done was doubted me,
3 years later and I'm still that bottom feed,

Let me drown in this sorrow,
For the pain is tomorrow,
Can't handle another day,
For today I must borrow.

Another life from hell,
Can I say it is to be swell?
The pain is too swell,
I begin just to tell,

You the truth,
Want some proof?
Shattered dreams in my eyes,
As my heart begins the bruise,

Now I'm tattered and wrecked,
My heart begins to detect,
All the things that you said,
But for that I can laugh,

Every laugh is a tear,
Blood-stained from my fear,
I thought it was my year,
Now it's time..to get out of here.