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Maladapted

Like a cactus I adapted to the desert sands

I learned to live the fiery heat and water forsaken lands

I learned to stand the frozen nights the blister of my hands

But never have I ever learned to live a land so damp.

 

Never did I learn to live such cloudy rainy nights

Never did I learn to live a day without my knives

Never have I faced a battle that I could not fight

And never have I ever felt the lightnings evil bite.

 

This evil storm, this darkening cloud, consumes my very soul

It brings me rain and brings me pain, unfills the once filled holes

It brings me sadness, brings me fear, my hearts a burning coal

Yes, my heart that’s full of dark, the very heart you stole.

 

The rolling thunder comes around and tells me my mistakes

It screams, “you’ll never be alive, you’ll never see the day!”

It tempts me through this rainy season in my hands a stake

A stake to tear the pain away there is no other way.

 

I ripped and tore until I bore a thousand open wounds

So when they scar they will remind me why my heart is bruised

To constant shatter of my heart, I know my heart is doomed

They say somewhere there is a light I hope to find it soon.