Why can’t you hear me?

I’m calling to you,

Calling into the darkness.

I'm already in the darkness,

Slipping away from the light.

And very soon it will get darker

Much darker, darker than it is.

I’m not calling any more, I’m

Screaming, screaming at the top of

My lungs, my lungs burn, I’m screaming

Behind me, into the light.  Screaming,

Asking it to take me back into its

Innocent, loving, sheltering arms.  But it does

Not hear me, it will not hear me, it

Does not want to hear me, and it does not need to hear me.

 My hand stretches out to it

But I cannot touch it.  I have been

Revealed to the darkness in the world.

I can never go back, this time, the

Light will not save me,

Because childhood

Is slipping away.

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This poem I wrote in math class in third grade. As you can tell, I really hated math that year. =) however, quite contradictory, this poem is about growing up, and maturing mentally. It was originally in my own works, then I edited it and moved it to Verse47's collection of poems called falling. (you should really check them out!) But I felt it didn't really fit in with the other poems, so now it's back where it started, except edited. Enjoy! :P

updated Jul 18 '10 by luckycharms