• Have you ever looked in
    the gray spots of your vision
    seeing deep inside to the uncertain
    facing all your fears and
    jumping off the edge to insanity?
    Taken aback by all the
    beauty you see in the darkness
    the stars that shine to only those who
    don't live in light.

    That's where she lives, somewhere
    off in the fringe, not really
    feeling or seeing what everyone else does.
    She has her own beat
    carries herself differently than
    others when she walks, sings, draws
    pictures on paper and skin.
    She wants to live here
    She tells herself day by day;
    Stay out of their view so they don't
    see the real girl, the one needing the
    life that they all have.
    No, I'm okay in the darkness, it's
    where I know myself.
    I see the stars down here, shining down and twinkling
    with the light the others won't see.

    But someone comes in
    takes away her secrets and pain
    someone she can trust
    put all her hope on without having
    to be scared anymore. The
    darkness opens, the sun shines through;
    she loves the way it feels on her back and her
    heart; warmth like no other. Hope.

    And then suddenly the light vanishes;
    warmth all gone.
    She can't breathe, she now suddenly sees
    what there is to offer
    outside of her darkness, the hope and warmth
    that had never been there before,
    now gone and has left its evidence strewn across
    her face... falling,
    from her eyes. Falling away from
    her heart.

    But she wouldn't wish that upon anybody, even
    the one who showed her the light in the first place,
    took it away;
    A cruel trick of the heart, a magic trick
    so wrong.
    So stay in the light and leave her there, broken
    and alone in her cracked world. The
    stars don't shine anymore, because the
    sun took them away. Blinded.
    Gone.