Never underestimate

One man can do so much

Alone he fears no one

No one can sway him

He seeks to heal his wounds  

Feeling weak he hates

He yearns for affection

Stolen from his at a young age

He lost his one companion

No longer innocent

He’s seen to more then he should

His vision shrouded with loss

Internally he is at war

Something no one else can see

Responsibility for him alone to bare

He never shares how he feels

He know no one truly cares

He loses himself on the daily

Never feeling the same

Mindset constantly changing never the same

Modesty no longer a part of his persona

He dreams

His dreams shift taking the form of soldiers

Of warfare, he sees the dead

All part of his past, a war blazes inside him at all times

Constantly losing that battle

Yet he always returns for a rematch

He admits that he needs help but he is a lone survivor

His platoon was ambushed leaving him the only left

They’ve all left him

The only ones he ever confided in

The only others to ever know his darkest secrets

The only people who could’ve helped him through the battle

Have passed on to the afterlife

Pondering the next move

He’s in a never ending chess match

One wrong move could end the game

Leaving him the loser

Only that in this case losing the match

Would mean that a fire would be extinguished

Leaving others full of pain, questions, never ending anguish

But he can’t

He carefully evaluated every move

Knowing that whatever he chooses will hold repercussions

Everything a lie

All of it just a ploy to get in your head

You’ve seen the real world

That life that people take so much time to build

Can’t be taken away just as fast as you can blink

You aren’t fooled by the veil that they try to put in your head

You’ve lived it firsthand

And while everyone is blinded by the veil

You see the truth and that makes you feel alone

Not like the others a true

A true outcast