Enter Here

Only I may enter here

Where the beginning of the road is also the rear

Where despair and joy find their place

Next a toothy grin and tears on a face

This is where my hope is found

But also where all hope is lost

Where depression has forced me down to the ground

And laughter has a deadly cost

Come share a stare, onlooker there

Beneath the pretense the world isn’t fair

Exhibit A lies before you now

To stare and poke and prod with a scowl

But I’d challenge you, before you leave

When my end has come and you start to grieve

To think of now before I left

And the way that you gawked at me as I wept