POETRY MADE ME SANE

When the world is black and dark
The people I love lost and gone
And life left me pitiful
Poetry made me sane

When I lost hope of finding a friend
The world miserable, my spirit broken
Found my fiancee was cheating on me
Poetry made me sane

When I couldn't find comfort
No one to tell or share with me my pain
Nightmares here and there, the heart sleepless
Poetry made me sane

When mama died and papa walked away
I got beaten and rapped
The world obscure, my eyes tired of sobbing
Poetry made me sane

I was a juvinile brought up in a motherless home
Felt I am cursed the reason why mama rejected me
Mocked at, bullied and called a bastard
When I was all alone and depressed
Poetry made me sane

When I lost my job and homeless
Prostituting on the street to survive
When I thought had no choice but sucide
Poetry made me sane

When I couldn't find my path and got into drugs
Back from rehad but rejected by all
Let alone in a deserted world
Poetry made me sane

Back in college I was a school drop out
Sconded for wasting most of my whole life
When I was soaked in angony and shame
Poetry made me sane

When I was ill and admitted in the hospital
The doctor says I may not pull through
When I thought could no longer hold on to hope
Poetry made me sane

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