Here I lay

Adam Galles

Here I lay

Here I lay, thrashing

not giving in to the urge to give up like everyone else

Here I lay, fighting

Yet the battle is lost to a choice made by others.

Here I lay, knowing

that every second that passes by

makes me feel a longing to be anyone else

Here I lay wondering

can people change, can I stand up

Here I lay hoping

we will be noticed, 

for we are the people that need it most

Here I lay waiting

For a savior

Here I lay forgotten

In the dust like everyone else around me, 

cowering, nowhere to go

Here I lay starving

craving and slowly drifting out of existence 

as people not so far away have the luxury as a place to call home.

Here I am wishing

That maybe I can get up

that people that could do something would do something

Here I lay, Dying

every morsel of hope gone

every bit of energy seeming disappeared.

Here I lay, now sleeping

hoping, fighting, and knowing,

that maybe one day people like me will be helped up.