It’s Life who leads you into the shadows

And Life who leads you out.

It’s words like poison coming from our mouths

That fill our minds with doubt.

It’s every sneer, goodbye, and go the hell away

Burdening our leaden hearts.

It’s the searing pain we cause one another

That will tear us all apart.

It’s rain that morphs into darkness

Before our very eyes.

It’s a person who earned your feeble trust

Just to shatter it all with lies.

It’s those who never learned to forgive,

Or those who don’t care at all.

It’s the ones who can never fully understand

Why others would want them to fall.

It’s a path that’s led by darkness

But was never required to be.

It’s the darkness in our very hearts

That cause us not to see.

It’s the paths we choose that lead away

From the kindness we used to know.

It’s the kindness one should always remember

Before they ever let someone go.