Ten Years Later - 3.21.02

All's quiet
around the breakfast table.
He can't look
his father in the
I wish that everything
could be just a little bit different
now, a little bit different.

All's quiet
when he gets home from work.
He shivers
and goes to turn up the
he wants to run away from
here, home holds nothing more for
him, home isn't where his heart is.

He turns and walks away from here;
his life will never be the same.

Nine years old, he told his father "no."
Reoccurring nightmares locked up long ago;
still, he can see everything
is falling apart.
Fragile, ready to discard;
broken home, broke in two our hearts,
a million prayers couldn't save you now.