Lesson Learned
lesson learned...
my chosen path
treading broken glass
left feet both cut and bleeding
I sold my soul
paid the devil's toll...
red glaring flags unheeding.
desperation led
where all prudence fled
to find myself entangled...
in peril's web
in a psycho's bed...
to end up broke and mangled.
nearly lost my life
to a table knife
in a hand that looked so charming...
lived in fear
in the psycho's sphere,
helpless to disarming.
it took years
of self-pity's tears
my soul to then repurchase
but fought the fight,
choked each bitter bite,
and escaped the blighted circus.
today I know
where I can not go
and own my soul completely.
never more to roam
in a psycho's dome,
I avoid all webs discretely.
I have a voice.
can amend my choice
though I knew it not, for sorrow...
but the battle won
was a lesson spun
into promise of tomorrow.
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