Because of You

Going thru all my life
trusting so few
Looking at the words of another
And seeing so much of you and me in them

I wonder how many kids feel these feelings.
How many people grow up like this

Empty and hurt
Carrying the pain of our past
Into our future
Carrying the crosses we should not have
Because our “You’s”
We’ve exposed what remained of our hearts
Only to have them broken

We’ve trusted the wrong people
One time to many
Only to feel now
that there is no one left worth trusting

I too, wish I could forget everything
I too, am even ashamed of my life.
Not so much because of the emptiness in it
but because of the emptiness in my heart

I am so often afraid
And can never explain it…
Is this it?

Is it “because of you”