Don't Look Away

 I am the one you once knew

 Don’t look away in shame

You said I was incapable

Of being my own man 

 I actually applaud you 

You paved my way

To all I have accomplished

Don’t feel bad for what you said

Only know that you were wrong

Endlessly doubting myself

To appease your ideologies

 On and off pills of pleasure

 Just because I believed in you

   Why was I blaming God ?

    It was you who stranded me

   Left me on the cold concrete

   Hoping I would lose faith

   Why, so I could be like you?

   Running from himself daily

  Because the challenge was to great

   Or was it hurting you that I was strong

   Even after you left me for dead