I'm alive again
Alive and feeling free
The aches and pains are gone
I'm once again allowed to be me
Those morbid thoughts have left
Death isn't staring me in the eye
I'm here to live for another day
No more wondering why
That sickness has been attacked
It can no longer attack me too
I'm done being weak and helpless
I'm done watching everything I do
Alive, that's what I am
Free and learning to live
Another chance to exist
Now I'll give all I've got to give.

The sun peeks through the stubborn clouds
The downpour lessens and the wind subsides
Earth once again claims it's color
And the lightning finally resides  

Puddles cover the dampened ground
Birds take flight through the fresh air
Life is rescued from the darkness
Now go bask in the sun's warm glare

Bright blue takes over the sky
Green grass so fresh and new
And all of this because of one word
My dear, all of this because of you.

Fly-

I flew so high, for such a short time

Fall-

I let myself fall too fast

Hit-

I hit so hard, I hurt so much

Wake-

I finally understand. It wasn't meant to last.

Too much emotion
It will make you explode
So many tears and smiles
Too heavy a load

Cry yourself a river
Laugh yourself away
Get caught up in everything
You just allow it all to stay

Fight off all the extra
Don't let it take full rule
Emotions will eat you alive
They can be so very cruel.

How many times will you cry
Before life finally ends, and you die?
How many times will emotion pour out
For all the fear, pain and doubt?
How many people will it take
To trample your heart and let it break?
How many scars will you collect
From all the dreams that were easily wrecked?

How many worries will you nurse
Before you realize that it's life's curse?
How many friends will you leave behind
After all those years of being intertwined?
How many screams will go unheard
Because no one wants to hear a single word?
How many dreams will fade away
From all your doubts and your delay?

And how many times will you cry
Because of all the love you've lost?
And what will it take to end the pain?
What will it take, what will it cost?

Be it a friend by birth or by choice
Come into my life to either regret
Or rejoice. All the smiles and fears
We've shared with and without
Intent.  Every comforting word
Unhidden, but not always meant

So different, so unique, so like its
Own special science. Your rebellion
Your individuality, and my ever
Present compliance

An understanding we share, one
That is very rarely tried or broken
Our contentment with uncertainty
And with so many words unspoken

How we function, how we react
Our unspoken agreement, our rule
To make everything okay, even
If we have to act

But that suits us just fine,  this I
Surely know.  For with anyone
Else the friendship would have
Ended so very long ago.

You were once my wisdom
My heart and my love too
You were there forever
And you were everything
I thought I knew

My other half seemed
Fitting, as an occupation
You should claim. And
Words you spoke were
Healing, like every time
You said my name

You're still here as if
To maim me, to take
What little I now own
Why do I even bother?
There's no breaking
Through your heart of
Stone