I walk along the empty road
I realize I have missed all that once was
The lake with the giant toad
The cabin next door from us
Never knowing that what I should appreciate
Was standing right before me
In perfect view, but I was late
Late to see what could truly be
The empty patch of dirt takes me back
The flowers that blossomed back then
The flowers of beauty which I thought it lacked
Now lay in soil, so dark and thin
I remembered when I never saw the sky
The trees that had grown there
Towering hundreds of feet high
Now left are the stumps, cold and bare
My heart died with the flame
Left with nothing in its place
Now I'm left to stand in shame
To look ugliness in the face.
