Walking alone through the streets,

Trying to keep your pride,

And always feeling too afraid

To show who you are inside.



You don't ask for charity,

Trying to live however you can.

Can they see the tears in your eyes

As you try to remember how it began?

Shunned by many who looked on you,

Trying to mask your pain -

The pain of their taunts and hollow screams,

Filling your heart with shame.

I wish that I had been there,

To walk there by your side.

To show you you are not alone,

To love you before you died.

Your pride will last forever,

Despite all they put you through.

They tried to cast you out,

But there is a greater strength in you.

Walking alone in the streets,

Always in the dark -

Casting a sinister shadow

Against your body, so brutal and stark.

I'd give anything for you to feel,

Feel love, praise and power.

If you could only live in the light,

And have more than your pride at each dark hour.

Your pride was the one thing they could never take,

And it made you what you were.

The memory of you will last forever,

You were more human than any of us were.

Copyright © Catriona Elizabeth Mowat 2007