Shelter
By Roland E. Williams
You were just another place with no face
Your only wish was for a warm embrace
There to give them freedom and space
Letting them bide their time in grace
Though they were never ready for your story
You are the one who cured their mystery
And in return they offered you more misery
Will anything be able to fix your quandary?
And this makes you wonder once again
If this isn’t how everything is to remain
Because you and yours are not the same
As all those others who brought you shame
They all made you their one and only master
Then just as your heart starts to beat faster
They leave you there, your heart in your hand
As they take off to some other promised land
You were just another shelter getting no better
Their rain of tears making your nights wetter
You know the next one that knocks can enter
And for a while the past will not seem to matter
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