Verily, verily I beseech thee
Come hither to me
While the warmth
Of your person is ever before thee
Come lately
You have missed me
Be swift and you'll meet me
Verily, verily I beseech thee
Come hurriedly to me

I go to a place
Where I can be alone
My steps are light and airy
And my body feels weightless
Joy floods my soul
My face just glistens
From the mere fact
That I'm happy
And I can't stop smiling
When I go to this place
Cloud walking
I call it
When I walk with no regards
I hear no one
I see no one
It's just me
Thinking happy thoughts
As I cloud walk

Don't apologize for compassion
If when you see
Someone hurting
And you feel their pain
While a tear finds it way down your cheek
Don't apologize
When you have experienced a low
And then someone you know
Goes through that same low
Then you reach out a hand
To help that person up
Don't apologize
Be strong enough
To feel what you feel
With no apology needed

Trying to forget
Hiding from my past
Packing it down deep within
Stumbling from the weight I 'm carrying
Looking for answers
In all the wrong places
Searching for guidance
And acceptance of myself
The mirror lies
I'm not fine
I just look like it
Is that what people see
A shell of what I should be
Can't they see beyond that
And help me
I'm sinking fast
Only one finger up
Above quick sand
Help before I go under
Never to be seen again
Giving up all my chances
To correct my wrongs
And be forced to except
My unfortunate end
Last chance
Pleading
Help me if you can

When my eyes close
I go to another place
Visible only to myself
I am whatever I chose to be
Flying high above the clouds
Happy weightless and content
Nobody can do me any harm
Smiling
Only good thoughts
Feeling healing way up here
In my mind there is peace
I have all I need
All my struggles are gone
In my mind
My eyes open reality sets in
I get up
And life begins

What do you do
When the one you need
Is the one you hate
How do you forget
The wrongs done to you
When they make an appearance often
How do you love
What's hurting you
Daily struggles
I wish I didn't have to concern myself with
I'm trying
Treat people like you want them to treat you
They  say
I make a  decision everyday to pay attention
To listen and not self impose
Could I get that same please
I make sure that others needs or taken care of
I watch
I pray
Before you can inform me
I ask you
I'm trying
What's hard is keeping this up
Because I'm tempted to give up
Perhaps that's just talk
It is
I can't
Even if  I wanted to
It is embedded in my being
Forever etched on my heart
I must persevere
Looking for that prize at the end

Passed up many opportunities
Looking for the right thing
Found myself under the load
Trying to fight my way back up again
I stepped up on what was holding me down
One thousand steps I made
Discouragement was one step
After that
Each step got harder
Self doubt came into play
I thought I could was overshadowed
By you can't
Stop while your ahead  
The closer I got to the top
My body began to weaken
I  paused for a minute
Then continued
It seemed I had reached the top
It was hard
Because my legs were shot
What I saw amazed me
Just steps
And more steps in front of me
Believe it or not
I didn't give up
I persevered
Until I was no longer on the bottom
But rising like the sun
Hot and untouchable
Bright and overwhelming
Unstoppable