The Taking and Giving Poem

It took years of torture and years of pain

sweat and tears and a few blood stains

It took a family's cheer and heart in less than a year

and all the friendships you once found dear

It took hobbies and enjoyment out of life

and the opportunity to have a peaceful night

It took moral and feeling and stripped them away

and everything you ever had important to say

It took ambitions and goals and maybe a future

all the things you dreamed of younger and newer

It took your faith, religion and God

and left the devil to do his job

It gave shame hopelessness and lots of worry

and an unbalance stagger with a vision that's blurry

it gave sickness and even awful disease

and the horrible memory to not find your keys

It gave you fear, dependency and being alone

and always that feeling that you should be gone

It gave you hate, contempt and resentments

and the ability to crush every friendship

It gave you hell, and as I said the devil himself

a brain that's blank, and blackness for health.