A/N: Chapter 36: Lost and Broken
Um...yeah! I realized I hadn't done a poem lately, so I whipped this out first thing this morning. Seriously, it came to me from the prompt 'dreams'. Right above that was another one I did for Chapter 24, I think, 'abandoned'. From there I came up with the line 'lost and abandoned in a world of broken dreams' and this angst-fest was born :-)
For 300 years, he's wandered the world alone,
Making ice and making snow.
Trapped in endless winter, he wasn't sure what to do,
He couldn't go to the Guardians and he couldn't go to you.
He was lost, he was abandoned, he was coming apart at the seams,
Lost and abandoned in a world of broken dreams.
He was lost and he was lonely, he was tired of calling out,
Lost and broken, stuck in two worlds of doubt.
He was just a kid, but he was fighting a man's war,
Fighting, fighting, but what was he fighting for?
Fighting this battle, he was forced to be a man,
And still you wonder, still you ask yourself why he ran?
You who call yourselves Guardians, you've failed at your job,
You abandoned a child, left him broken and lost.
Now you come back for him, this lost child,
Thinking he's capable of only bitter lies and broken smiles.
He's broken and lost, this child you've always known of,
Living for three centuries without love.
You knew he was abandoned, knew he had no home,
And still you left him in his endless winter, broken and alone.
And just when he thought his loneliness was ending,
He realized you were just pretending.
He cried on his frozen lake, completely, utterly alone.
This broken and lost boy, this winter spirit with no home.