Lost Friend

At this exact moment
A million memories spin
In rapid trails
Convolving in the wind
I look back
Remember the little boy
Try to grasp
What once gave me joy

You see, I faint
At the task at hand
I fear that time
I have lost once again
Those youthful pains
I now look back
Were quite comic
I reflect and laugh

O, if I could only go back
Relive those years
Capture my friend
From her gloomy tears
I look back and sigh
An opportunity lost
For what I loved then
Has turned to dust

I lie here trapped
In the dungeon of Time
Without knowledge even
Of my turbulent crime
A cry is made
An echo through the cells
In desperation
To escape my Hell

No soul flees here
This place so cold
No comforts near
I grope and groan
Reason abandons
Not a soul attends
No rations are served
No fellow friends

‘For all have gone astray’
Or so I’ve heard
Is seems many though
I’ve led away
But the negative has had its way
I pray in hopes soon I can say,
“I’m alive and happy today”
And grant myself free from guilt
Free from sorrow I’ve built
So happiness indeed
Can in my heart stay.