I’ve Hidden Away So Long I Didn’t Realise I Got Old…. Poem by DEEP DARK SOUL POET

Cascading rain seen falling from my eyes
Echoes all those times I’ve tried
Placing hope on things I’ve seen
Building things that don’t become dreams

Weeping quietly through the dark night
Not understanding why things aren’t right
Facing each sunrise with a painted smile
Reminders of a lifetime’s constant trials

But knowing deep down within myself
Patterns repeating across my tortured soul
Reaching hands that try to touch, try to hold
Never knowing from where the real pain unfolds

Running tired, hiding places now so few
The darkness so fast catching up looms
False friends prophet their own doom
Walking away, new friends found so few

Trading the plastic mask that has worn out
Wearing my own face wrinkled with doubt
The light hurts as it splinters into my eyes
Its gone so far, I believe my own lies

Time to make a move into the new dawning day
So many before have revered and tried to stay
As the smoke clears and I wipe away the tears
I realise I have missed just so many years

Something within me, the pain stored for so long
Tears away at my heart and soul, feeling wrong
Little did I know that it isn’t that way at all
Its been so many years since I could stand tall

Fumbling around like a newborn in the dark
There is an ugly world full of beauty so stark
I haven’t been around to see it all unfold
I’ve hidden away so long I didn’t realise I got old….