# 7 "Overcoming Yesterday."

Overcoming Yesterday.

Walking sorrows lane.
I know the answers.
I can’t stop the pain.
Now 30 years after.
It’s still the same.
What will it take?
To brake this chain.
Inside I am crushed.
A nightmare’s terrain.
The images of blood.
Are my mental stain.
It doesn’t take much.
To spark that flame.
I think I get better.
Every time I explain.
When tragedy strikes.
It goes right to my brain.
An innocent child.
A life taken in vain.
Another victim falls.
Find someone to blame.
Saying you’re sorry.
Dust off your shame.
Shortly there after.
We forget their name.
A place and a killer.
Are sure to remain.
Perhaps the date.
That they were slain.
As more time passes.
Can hardly restrain.
I knew someone there.
Said cold and mundane.
Absent of feeling.
Void of humane.
Remind me what I was.
Emotionally lame.
I’m loosing composure.
I’m going insane.
Then my tears drop.
And falling like rain.
Jim Raab.