"Presently Now,
I look around and all I see is confusion
People walking around with happy faces as illusion
Their hearts filled with emotion but empty with love
Everyone’s unhappy, just calling each other’s bluff.
A battlefield, I never thought I would be
Now it’s just the war inside of me.
Backtrack
My spirit is broken, was never intact
There’s no place left in my mother’s nest
This house carries shame, the depression, the blame
The pent-up anger, the hopelessness, the helplessness
The homeless.
I am homeless in a sense I lack a place
A place to call home
Here I am again, and everything is my fault.
Back to my childhood, my haunted past
I’m sorry mom and dad, I don’t know what I did.
I don’t know what to do
Shall I apologize for the problems
I might cause in the future too?
You would say "what problems"
And I would hang my head in sadness
You never knew
You never cared, but you did.
But you never saw, you overlooked
All the times I thought about dying
Who noticed? Who cared? Who comforted me?
All the nights I spent crying
Who noticed? Who cared? Who comforted me?
Me, myself, and I, I don’t blame you.
But instead, I’ll choose
Life on this earth as I’ve come to learn
It’s a mysterious path that twists and turns
And when my path finally ends
And I choose to transcend my new path
To eternal life, it will never end."
All images copyright Ann Rosen 2025