11. Lacking Luster (Dec 6)

My rights have been stripped from me

I'm treated like a second class citizen

Being kicked in and out of the gutter

Living a life not resembling what once was

I'm a shell of the man I used to be

Diseased ridden and now full of pain

The only family of mine that remain

Are the empty bottles I wake next to

Each morning I wake from dreaming
Of a life I lived so long ago
In this place of gray and misery
I welcome the end like an old friend