It’s a wonderful thing being alive That feeling that accompanies unperturbed growth That resonates with the sounds of the soul The sounds we hear when we shut out everything but the one within Sometimes I think I would like to sit on a mountain top Just listening to that silencing sound Letting its various tones and pitches seep through every pore of my flesh Until at last it embeds itself deep within my heart strings So that I may listen to it again someday when the nights are cold And the skies are darks And the familiar hand is not there to hold On that day, I will hear the sounds again Echoing with the knowledge of everything that is true Pulsating with a reminder that life is worth living Simply for the sake for its existence For the sake of the reality it forces us to embrace For the sake of the humanity it has created over the eons of time And on that day When feeling triumphs over logic and reason if but for a second I will be okay If but for a second.......