Shattered Glass Eyes

People rushing back and forth around the vicinity of the school
Lockers being slammed by impatient hands
Shoulders brushing against one another in the crowded halls
Hundreds of voices going into one ear and out the other
The shrieking of the bell overpowering the senses

My mind becomes the bell
Shutting out the world around me
A world where wrong is right and right is wrong

My focus is lost by the tension
Thrashing tension conjured from eyes set to kill
Eyes that look but don’t see
With a gaze that bores holes into my flesh and right through my soul
With the bitter judgment of blind men
Pointing fingers and whispering among themselves

They see no wrong in what they do
Only the right in what they think
No matter how cruel their judgment is
No matter how many tears hit the floor
Tears of loneliness shed from glass eyes
Glass eyes shattered by hearts of steel
Stained by the darkness of the soul within

They grin from ear to ear as their peer frowns
Laugh as they watch their victim fall to their knees
Pleading for freedom from the clutches of hatred
Pleads that are nothing more than cries on deaf ears

They hate to love
They love to hate
They live to instigate
And shout at the Lord above

We all live within hatred
A hatred that resides within eternity
And buries itself within the soul
A creation of man
As well as the destruction of man

The raging tides of a dark bottomless ocean
That wash over the pure grains of sand on the sunlit shoreline
And carry them away from salvation

We are the grains of sand from the sunlit shoreline
Swallowed by the dark waters
And pulled below the surface until we dissolve away
Becoming a part of the dark watery abyss

We are all doomed to succumb to our own creation
For there is no one left to pick up a bucket
And plunge it into the abysmal water
To bail us out before we are carried away by the cold darkness