More Than Survive

I keep getting all these images
Audio, video, live
Little sound bytes that take me right back
To where I could more than survive

I've been living on empty for too many years
I'm tired and lonely and scared
That I might grow old, all alone, by myself
Looks like no one really ever has cared

Maybe they haven't, only wanted to take
What I with my open heart gave them
And now I look back with regret and with pain
Wond'ring how on this earth could I save them

Poem by Alice C. Bateman

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