The Long Way Down-----July 21st 2010 by Gary Christison

A pierce through the heart
Is the way I was on a spiraling road of destruction.
It tears me apart that we ever did part.
The streets we used to walk.
Are as empty as the drawings made of chalk.
Made by the wonderous children from the city.
Only if those children only knew.
All the broken promises and lies of life.
That I and countless others have endured.
Maybe there is hope in the future.
Hopefully they don't have to walk in the shadows.
Fearing for their very lives through the shattered streets.
Kids please don't make the choices I've made.
Because it's a Long Way Downward street.
Filled with bad decisions.
Choices and hopeless romances.
And it all ends the same either in sickness.
Or in Death.
The End