They're fading for good

The stories of my childhood

Goodbye forever. 

I should have never

Let them take it away. 

Every single day

I try and remember 

The cold nights of December. 

The good; the bad

The father I never had.

My working mother.

My sick grandfather. 

The cancer that killed him. 

The day so bright, but it should've been cloudy and dark

No sun in the sky. 

He was so kind, so nice, so shy. 

The love I lost

The love I thought was supposed to heal

Protect me like a shield. 

Instead it broke me

It's as if love had a fee

But I thought love didn't cost a thing

Love was supposed to heal the pain

Cover up all my shame

I wish I coud bring back the heart that love cracked

The heart love shattered 

The heart love would flatter

Someone stole my childhood 

They really shouldn't look to far into it

Not too sure what you'd find

Some of the memories aren't too kind 

Really frightening, some of them.

You can barely see the light; very dim.

I turned it off to forget all my daddy's drug bets

All the stories of before continue to burn me at the core.