Empty Ocean

Thrown in the deep end
At such a young age
Struggling to swim all on my own
I finally learnt to swim
Without any ones help
Now you're offering me an air tank
After all this time
I've already developed gills
Stuck in the deep end forever more
I can't breathe your air
You offered it to late
If only I knew my life would turn out like this
I would never have fought
Never struggled to swim
I would have given up the fight
Before I started
Now I find myself swimming all alone
In an empty ocean
Plenty of room for all
Although no one can get near
The gates shut so tightly
I'm too scared to open
Not sure what may be behind them
Surely things that I won't want to know
I shut the gates for a reason
I seem to have forgot
Over the years the gates have been my protector
Shutting anything I don't want out
Never again can I let a soul in
The pain they cause
To immense to put behind my gates
The tears I cry all alone
A small price to pay
The hurt a part of me
I never can get rid of
A new piece of my soul
Sucking away at my empty life
My tank an empty place forever more.