Everything to Lose

A poem about a failed attempt to never hurt by having nothing to lose.

On quiet nights when all is still,
I may begin to think and muse,
On a place and time far in the past,
Where I had everything to lose,

I ran long and far from all my pain,
But the race to escape I always lose,
There’s a place and time far in my past,
Where I had everything to lose,

My shadow is my only friend,
He’s the only one I ever knew,
Who could hide me from the place and time,
Where I had everything to lose,

I’m hiding from the sun and light,
It’s my old pain I try to eschew,
But there’s a place and time far in my past,
Where I had everything to lose,

But what I tried so hard to chain,
Cannot be bound, it’s always loose,
Calling from the place and time,
Where I had everything to lose,

Like a whirlwind, it all comes back
There was darkness there, but joy too,
I was happy in the place and time,
Where I had everything to lose,

Somebody save me, help me, tell me…
Is there anything that I can do,
To take me back to a place and time,
Where I had something left to lose.