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Where were you when I needed a shoulder to cry on? When I needed someone to care. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To see it not through my eyes but though my heart and words<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why were you not there? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those people, that child, the ones screaming for help, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They needed me to come. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I gave with everything in my soul, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I could not fix their wrong. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where were you when I needed to tell the story, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wait, But how could you have understood? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would you have known how to help anyway, because really no one could <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I told you my story and showed you the pictures, I thought you knew the deal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But no one told you how to manage this thing, as I battle a world that is real. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don\u2019t fault you for not knowing the pain,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are innocent in my life of woe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just know that it is the endless cries of the victims,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is an everlasting daily war <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I try to ward off the enemy, with all the tricks that I know<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I see their faces nightly, in this panic stricken blur <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do I return to normal, or is that just a cruel, cruel dream <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the sights, the sounds, the odors, will always be part of my stream. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solace to leave it in Gods\u2019 hands, to help me manage this plight <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A career that I chose put me here, I pray his grace will make it right.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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