Snakes and Ladders

               My Life is on fire, alight on the Blaze,
                  The journey is so long the direction a maze
                  I feel I’m on the bottom trying to get high
                  But never getting anywhere even if I try’
              
           So as I cry inside myself and people walk on by,
            I know no one will stop and try to ask me why,
         Sometimes I feel higher but always much too low,
          Like trying to get to heaven, but hell is where I go,
            My friends help me get higher they’re my strong
                and sturdy ladder,  But some people are evil
                      they’re the snakes the cobra the adder,

            My Dads a kind man, he like his shirt and tie,
               and my parents did love each other until
                                 that love felt a lie,

           so as I cry inside myself and pray to god to die,
               if you were there and saw my broken life,
                       would you stop and ask me why,


By... Benjamin Jelley