The years are going by swiftly
I wonder how many more I'll get
Stray white hairs gleaning in the sun
I notice them coming, one by one

Where has my youth gone?
Has time somehow done me wrong?
I watch my children growing older
The fire inside me has turned to smolder

Yet I find somewhere deep inside
I am still that same young girl
that I was so many years ago
I have much to accomplish before I go

Please, if there is a god
I ask that you set me on the correct path
I know I have so much to give
I want to know before I go that I did live

I watch from a distance
As distance is a friend
Watching and waiting
For time to somehow bend

Watching as time
Steals her away
There is no more time
For keeping her at bay

She is the one
That mattered most
Brought me into this world
Raised me as she knew best

But time has it's way
It will steal her from me
Take her away
And she will no longer be

A mother
A wife
A grandmother
Full of life

Her memory is fading
No longer standing tall
I try not to show
The sadness I feel for it all

You made me what I am today
So I have you to thank
From childhood to adolescence
You shaped me, formed me; joviality shrank

Teaching that anyone can betray
You are the one that showed me the way
Always looking ahead and behind
Never knowing what I will find

I'm always running, hiding
Into a seclusion that is binding
Dearly departed from innocence so strong
****** into the world of hatred so long

All these years later
I am left wondering how long...
How much longer will it be until
I can emerge from the darkness that is wrong

What a day today turned out to be
The near future I wish I could see
I feel so lost, so alone and betrayed
In your presence today I felt afraid

All your truths turned out to be lies
You did all the things that lovers despise
Was there ever a time, I plea
When you really truly loved me

I almost followed you to the end of earth
Loving you was like being in love with an enemy
I endured the fire and ice from your hearth
Diagnosis:  internally charred and frozen from your remedy

And now I'm left with the weight of the world
That you laid upon my broken and worn wings
August was my last flight as our lives unfurled
Seemingly left adrift on treacherous raging seas