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All of the miles before us unfold
Uncertainly leading to stories yet told
The pleasures and pains, the joys and the woes
Retreating and greeting wherever we go
The sun and the moon dancing by overhead
While we’re sleeplessly dreaming or resting our heads
Bringing light to the dark, bringing darkness to light
Sometimes chilling the day, sometimes warming the night
As we see what we feel, and we feel what we see
As we loathe what we have, and we want what can’t be
As we right ‘til we’re wrong, and we wrong ‘til we’re right
As we run from the battle, and rage in the fight
There’s not one of us perfect; not one of us made
To make all the right choices from birth to the grave
Sometimes we will conquer, and sometimes we’ll fall
Sometimes we’ll have faith, and sometimes we’ll lose all
But to lose is to win if we’ll learn from the past
Instead of retreating from shadows we’ve cast
Rising up from the ashes and shedding our skins
Though it feels like the end, it is where we begin
Finding strength in our weakness and knowledge in pain
As we unleash our courage, and fear we restrain
For the future’s unwritten…a past yet to be
And the only thing certain is uncertainty
Things we want to say, and never do
Things we want to do, and never try
Do we live to lie about the truth?
Don’t we live the truth in every lie?

Why try and place the blame? It’s we who choose
We want it all, and let it slip away
We only love what surely will abuse
Abusing what we love most every day

Dodging blame by claiming good intentions
Intending to pretend we weren't wrong
Is there truth in nothing we are saying?
Have we been saying nothing all along?

Harken thee unto the words unspoken
Long unbroken is the silence we disdain
Every memory brings new words to choke down
How they go down like the poison they became

Wanting more despite what we’re forsaking
No mistaking we’ve been waiting far too long
If only we could hear what we’re not saying
Disobeying what our hearts know can’t be wrong
It may not be a message that we don’t already know
But sometimes a reminder is exactly what we need
For sometimes in this life, only darkness seems to show
Causing hope and strength to slowly wither and recede
Sometimes we hesitate to walk the path that leads to happiness
Because the shadows loom, and we lose sight of what’s to gain
But, the beauty still exists within the darkness when it falls
And the beauty in us all still screams to shine despite the pain
Our focus may be shadowed, and our sorrows may take hold
Our doubts may hold us back while we give in to lies we’re told
Or we may simply give up, without realizing that is what we’ve done
It’s in these times that we should strive much harder than before
To hold on to the beauty of the truth of what’s in store
And remember who we are, no matter what is said or done by anyone
Remembering to live and laugh and love with no regrets
To learn from our mistakes, and to forgive, but not forget
And find the hidden beauty that’s been shining in the darkness all the while
Although sometimes it seems our efforts are in vain
The things we want the most are often hardest to obtain
But, even on our darkest days, there waits for us an unexpected smile
It is undeniable how we torture ourselves, and yet we still deny that it is by our own hands. We blame the objects of our desires when it is merely our indecisiveness that causes us to suffer. When we finally reach our own conclusions, and act upon them, that is when we will find freedom...even if it sometimes feels like damnation.
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This calm you see within me
Is sometimes a raging storm
Drowning out my senses
'Til I can't feel anymore
Sometimes the raging storm
Becomes my calmest time of all
The beauty of destruction
Strengthens me, restoring all
The darkness that surrounds me
Seeks to gain complete control
Not seeing that my weaknesses
Are stronger than they seem
This light you see within me
Is the shadow of my soul
Shining with the brilliance
Of a thousand broken dreams
If you see me as a stranger
Then a stranger you must be
For I have felt your every pain
And you the same of me
We're rattling our cages
'Til we understand our flaws
These truths I understand
Do you understand at all?
This was written for the ones who told me they could not understand why I felt the way I did after talking with them through their low points so many times.
I am a demon
I am an angel
Consumed by my desire
Tryin’ to make it through the fire
I know the feeling
I know it too well
Yet it keeps me in control
Despite the need to drown my soul
And though the hunger
Still mounts within me
I can all too clearly see
The better man who dwells in me
I am the broken
But I am made whole
For I know that I can love
Strong enough to rise above my pain
If you be so blind as to fail to see the true beauty of any soul, disregarding the true intent of their beautifully scarred heart while daring to hold any single one under the magnifying glass of your judgement so as to scrutinize every minuscule element which you so ignorantly disdain, even in secrecy, you but give them the opportunity to return your gaze through the very instrument you hold so callously over them, and the ugliness and true intent of your dark and hardened heart, which you have so eagerly starved of the true beauty of your own soul, will be magnified more clearly unto them, as well...
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