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This is not my usual style of poetry, but the inspiration hit so hard . . . I had to write it. Critique it heartlessly!!

And to @vic Welcome to the thread! I love your poem!! 🙂

Way Out

I’m a teenage guy. Thought my way was cool
‘Til I found my self face down in a bloody pool
Why didn’t work out? They said to follow your heart
But the road it took me down broke me all apart.

Kneeling by my bed with my head in my hand
I never took time to learn and to understand
Now with my world’s spinning out of control
Is there anybody who can make this wreck whole?

I’m a teenage girl. They left me behind
No one was there for me. No one was kind.
I tried to find fulfillment. Love was my deepest need.
But those I loved abused me and left me to bleed

Sobbing into my hands, I’ve sagged against a wall
Not a soul ever answers the phone me when I call.
The love and joy of life have forgotten me
Is there anybody out there who will see?

Is there a way out? I know I’m stained and marred
My heart’s battered and battled-scarred
Is there a way home? Will I always be alone
Locked in rejection like a prison of stone?
If there’s a way out someone help me
Is there a way out I want to be free!

He’s got a pistol there at his thigh
Clenching the grip in hand, he just wants to die
To soon end the world he wrecked and choices he must make
The world’s too risky a game with too high a stake

She’s got the pills there in her palm
Thinking that this will maybe be the balm
That’ll numb the pain and silence the life she’s forced to bear
Nobody in this world must really, truly care

There is a way out but they don’t know it’s there
They’ve never shown the way to the place where
There is a way home. There is a Father’s warm embrace
There’s a river to rinse away disgrace
There is a way out someone’s in need
There’s a soul who needs to know that they can be freed.

The bullet will fly but he won’t soar to heaven
The pills will numb but won’t lift the burden
Nothing in world will fill the void. Yet a God Unknown
Offers to them the greatest love ever shown
There is a way out! Someone’s in need
There’s soul who needs to know that they can be freed.