The dust continued to collect.

For years I buried the book.

The words tasted bitter.

The world still felt wrong.

Your name rarely spoken.

No longer called for in song.

Families continue to pray.

Embrace me in their warmth.

Asking for my soul to be saved.

But who are you to ask for more?

My prayers went unheard for so long.

So I set out to prove them wrong.

They say you reap what you sow.

But I can’t continue to believe,

In what I don’t know.

What more did I have to give,

So you didn’t feel the need to take?

But there’s always a reason.

And to question any further,

Is to commit treason.

You did yourself no favors,

The day you took her from me.

A child new to this world.

A child I’d never know.

Do you hear my prayers now?

What do you have to say?

What do I have to show?

Don’t come back, I don’t need you.

Don’t come back, I don’t need you.

Don’t come back, I don’t need you.

Don’t come back.