second chance

maybe if you forget me
maybe if you turn your back away
maybe we could meet again.

first impressions make quick judgments
on whether a person is worthy to get to know
but first impressions are only quick snapshots
a moment in time.

maybe if you forget me
maybe if you turn your back away
maybe we could meet again.

is it fair if that first impression
was tainted by a world upside-down?
if my life was momentarily chaotic
and i wasn't really me?

maybe if you forget me
maybe if you turn your back away
maybe we could meet again

and if we met again i know
that you'd find me to be far more
pleasant than before,
ready to greet you with a smile.

because some days i couldn't smile
my face would only frown
i'd wave "hi"
but i think i let you down.

and you is not one person out of a crowd
but everyone i feel i let down
or didn't really get to know
because i let my mask of pain
consume me.

too long

it's been too long
since sand has touched my feet
since wind has blown waves
water rushing beneath me
it's been too long
since this world was ours

it's been too long
since we've walked side by side
since whispers were shared
secrets sealed in wax
it's been too long
since this world was ours.

just to be free
to walk side by side
to talk into the night
to see your face again

just to be free
not bound by time and space
or any other thing
but to love.

through the mist

through the fog the mist
i find
something i would dismiss
but i know
that something so beauteous as this
should not
go unnoticed.

from the sky a light i see
its beams
glistening clearly
on droplets
reflecting from every
little bit
of sea...

and it hits me.

this light is your light.
this rain is your rain
the darkness is there
to let your light shine

this light is your light
this rain is your rain
this pain is here
to let your healing shine

but even when i find my day ain't turning out right
there's still a silver lining that shines so bright
I just have to find it and dwell in your might
because... everything... seems to turn out alright.

...

sometimes i cry
sometimes i wonder why
this world is falling out
from under me

sometimes i scream
sometimes this life doesn't seem
like it could be worse
than it is

but i take all that negativity
and channel it into this energy
to write a song
even if it's not that long.

maybe it's just the many things i have to do
with so little time to do it all
all the stress surrounding me and making me
feel the need to implode.

and i cry out, i scream for you to take me from this mire
and i cry out, i scream, really it's my one desire
that i not be in this place much more
i'm beginning to abhor
this feeling that i lack contentment
really it's a grand resentment
not feeling in touch with reality
or anything like practicality
want your arms so lovingly
embrace me reassuringly
tell me it will be alright
even though if i had sight
i could see that everything was falling apart...
from sanity to depart.