Torn from the shadows

I entered this life through chance
A dark event, a terrible circumstance
Why I exist is purely mystery

Born to dream, born to hope
Others made my life a heresy

I was torn from the shadows

Amidst darkness of life's legacy

Scorned like a shark hunting
In the ocean shallows

People would see me and flee
I risked a life lived in misery

I'd been cast from the palace

Draped in mist of modernity
Even if within I found solitude

My heart had grown callous

Kissed by a silent interlude

Asking what is left of life

What can I do but to pay

I've endured grave strife

I watched it all decay

If there is an answer

  I know I cannot find it
No chance that I ever will

Lost in the depths of a haze
Unless I open my eyes and see
Refuse the mask, and live
I must be redeemed