If I can keep the tears from showing you
pain is not yours but mine of truth
If I can hold inside and not see out
And make your life the good that grew

If I can believe and not see disbelief
If I can heal the hurting, no hurt for you
And be left alone, to feel the lonely
and sacrifice those words, mine is true

If I can think and let go of thinking
my time of healing is my words of no remorse
no push to give for me to stop pushing
And take what’s there true or false

If I can take one minute of silence
to stop the world and peace to leap
deep down to know without the knowing
there I will be , child I was, the one
I keep