Common
I am a common girl with a heart full of
broken dreams and fantasies.
You and I are not different,
despite what we are born to think.
Our styles of writing may vary
because we all live different lives,
we all have lived different pasts,
and we are all heading into different paths.
What makes us alike
is the embers that burn in our heart,
the voices that keep us up
in the wee hours of the night.
The images that will not cease
to escape our minds,
no matter how hard we try
to suppress the memories.
We are all haunted by a certain
event in our lives that changed us forever.
We once used to be whole,
you and I.
Until our hearts were broken,
our innocence stolen
as we came to realize
the world did not care for us
the way we cared for it.
The world betrayed us.
We all shared the same
depth of the world.
We saw everything,
even when we weren't suppose to.
We are writers.
We understand the world.
There is a void inside us
that will remain forever vacant.
With each poem we compose
we hope to bring back out past selves,
but we cannot.
Once something is broken
it can never be restored
to its original state,
like you and I.