A Lost Boy

First a sneer or a glare or an evil laugh

Then the pain

That's the way it always happened

That's the way it's happening now

I'm used to it

They found me sneaking away again

And that means punishment

I don't know where I'm going

I never do

I walk till I collapse

Then they get me again

I would stop,

But that freedom just feels too

Wonderful

This is why I keep trying

I am a lost boy

I may not look like it

But my heart feels it

The same pain

The same sadness

The same hope

I don't know why I wander

Or where I'm going

But I have a faint idea

I'm on my way

To a balcony door

Where a lost boy's heart can be found