I step on my clean underwear
Unaware of the piles of clothes
Accumulated from days not spent alone

Can you hold my hand
Just a little while longer
I won't ask you to stay
But right now you're all that makes me feel stronger

I try to find a time I’ve felt this before
An internal battle
With no tears to show
But unbeknownst a broken soul
A use of a body and then another
Fleeting feelings
Never catching one another
Where a soul ends
Comes from a deep end
Of karma inviting itself into my bed

I wish I could hold on to the words once mine
Like the ocean holds on to it’s tides
Sitting by the shore
My hand no longer in yours

My conscious seems to be in a state of solitude
One where it is hard to reach the light
Because the dark succumbs
the area surrounding you
One where I'm not sure if this is me growing up
Or if Ive wandered too far off the path
to find my way back
But then I question
if I even want to retract to the old path
If maybe this path, this new path,
is one that I humbly learn
Until I am ready to break out of my shell again
I just hope
that it's just a shell that I can break out of

A blessing comes soon
From this food we consume
From places around the world
Another feeds a small girl
With the same seed we eat
From your table to my teeth
What a delight we can share
Whilst spreading culture everywhere