This is the place where dreams shatter,

Where hope is crushed under heavy feet.

This is the place of silent cries,

Where despair clings strong on thin frames.

This is the place where innocence is lost,

Where sunlight is a mere illusion,

Where happiness is a fever delusion,

And where the ugly thrive, full of insidious thorns.

This is the place where buds of hope,

Get pruned off without a thought.

Where the glass is always half empty,

Because that was all you were taught.

This is the place without salvation,

A place worse than hell.

This is reality.

Welcome to the big bad world.