I walked alongside me
I have walked alongside me for fifty years An inside me An outside me A tormented me A confident talented me I have always been there for me when the tormented me was abandoned and alone when the abandoned me was alone when the tormented me sought and fed that torment, it was the only feeling I knew Self inflicted hurt Self inflicted pain Self inflicted doubt In all those times I walked alongside me In all those times In all those moments of hurt In all the exasperation I was there a small distant spec of survival