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What's in a word?
Words lift
And words pull down
Life is surrounded by words
Life is controlled by words
Words come from the heavens
Words shoot through the depths of hell
A picture is worth a thousand words
But what is the worth of those words
Words of wisdom
Words of tears
Words of joy
Words of sorrow
lovely
lustfully
succulent
delicous
smooth
exquisite
pleasure
pain
hurt
anger
bitch
hate
love
lover
beauty
All these words
Which are right
Which are wrong
fear
war
famine
emotion
happiness
love
love
It is the only word
Out of the thousands
That puts it simply
How much I care for you

Fly

Another Monday night
Another day gone
I’m fighting with myself
Till the break of dawn
I’m holding myself back
And I don’t know why
I ask to be free
But my life keeps passing me by
Another week to come
Another day to see
To find myself struggling
With who I want to be
Why can’t I look in the mirror
When the only one standing there is me
I must rise above and say

It’s my life
It’s my time
To stand on my own two feet
To be the man I saw myself become
No more holding my breath
No more holding me down
I will lift myself up
To the top of this mountain
And shout ‘I will overcome’
‘I will fly above’

Another Monday night
Another table cleared
She’s workin’ two jobs
Just to hold the one so dear
She’s holding herself back
And she doesn’t know why
She asks to be free
But the days just keep passin’ by
Another week to come
Another day to see
She’ll fight to see her daughter
She’ll fight just to breathe
She’ll take a look in the mirror
To see she’s not been beat
She will rise above and say

It’s my life
It’s my time
To stand on my own two feet
To be the person I saw myself become
No more holding my breath
No more holding me down
I will lift myself up
To the top of this mountain
And shout ‘I will overcome’
‘I will fly above’

When you look back on our lives
Please forgive what we did wrong
We fought for what was best for you
We’ve been fighting this war so long
We want you to see
That we’ve made it this far
When the day comes in your lives
When you don’t think you can go on
Look up, rise above and say

It’s my life
It’s my time
To stand on my own two feet
To be the person they saw myself become
No more holding my breath
No more holding me down
I will lift myself up
To the top of this mountain
And shout ‘I will overcome’
‘I will fly above’

Reflections

Home again
A light chill in the night
I look up to see a thousand lights
They’re gone
A thick mist is now high above
A light
Inhale
Exhale
Though I am in the open
I feel no one sees me
Are you there?
Inhale
Exhale
A drink
The sound scrapes
Between melted sand
The world around me looks different tonight
It’s another view
Is it me that is looking?
Is it you?
Inhale
Exhale
The night brings questions
But the sounds of a calm night
That is what I want
I feel something around me
Do you feel me?
The lights are missing
But I peer on regardless
A flicker from across the grass
Inhale
Exhale
One night
Nothing has happened
But I’ve changed inside
Another drink
The coldness slides down my throat
What I want
Is what's keeping me from it
Inhale
Exhale
Home again
In the chill of the night