Lately I’ve Been Hard Too Reach Poem by Daniel Richards

I was just so damned depressed
With a camel like hump, carrying the water of my slump
I took the choice and it was mine to choose
I was reaching out, but hearing me you just couldn’t do
The spark that once lived inside my mind, tied and bound
Diminished and fades still behind tired eyes, hope
It left when I reached out and no hand was to be found or clenched
And now I’m feeling distant again
I don’t know how or why or when, I ended up in this mess I’m in,

If you could look right through my eyes and see the view I see I see tonight
Perhaps then we can trade shoes,
You can walk miles in mine and I’ll walk even more in yours,
Slipping into each others mind and open the doors of each others pain,
I feel yours and you’ll feel mine
But im starting to feel distant again

I’m not looking for attention in fact I wanna be alone,
Depressed in mind manic in mood,
I don’t want special attention I just want to fit in like the rest of you
In this room of life, but from the draw of hardship my soul was stole
26years now and incomplete somewhere deep inside something’s missing
And from such pain and loss a hole opened and into it I fell head over hand,
But I’m not ashamed I’m proud of who I am, as no other man has ever touched the hell
I hold in my hands