My hand reaches, grabbing only air
Emptiness fills my soul
Leaving me stark bare
My innocence long stripped away
Puddled 'round my feet
My integrity had become prey
Trampled on like ground meat
I cry while no one hears me
Tears of acid and pain
I wish for my own heart full of glee
To replace this awful life stain
Cold, shivering and abused
I curl into a tight little ball
Freedom had gone to the accused
And in this hole is where I did crawl
Suddenly, a light bursts in action
My eyes shun the bright new day
Fear fills me more then a fraction
And a voice whispers down in the gray
It pulls at my battered insides
It steels itself against all hurt
Its own rules and morals it abides
And gives no sense of an alert
It pulls me out of the darkness
Holds me tenderly in its arms
Rubs away the bleak starkness
And wins me over with its charms
And finally, I'm here today
To tell you this terrifying tale
It chills the bone all the way
Of a soul, weak and frail
The anedote to this disease
This feeling of being alone
Friendship, it always frees
And leaves the soul to atone
