Love's Finish Line (2006)

I was born under the sun like everyone
Quickly learned I needed to run
To keep up with everyone.
Many times I lagged behind,
Sighed and
Wondered why
Even with relentless effort
I could not make it across the finish line.

Oh how I have tried
To make up for lost time,
But it's not easy to teach oneself
How to fly.
It's not easy to scale the wall
One's built before her eyes.
No one's giving me ten fingers
Or an alternative path to drive.

At the edge of the cliff so many times
Contemplating the grace of my dive.
I thought this one time when a car drove by
I was saved from my uncertainty in love;
The driver opened the door
Tempting me to explore this other side;
Led in by my bemused heart,
Believing his words were true from the start
I went for a ride...

How wrong was I.
My heart kidnapped
My body paralyzed
By a drug so strong
No doctor would ever prescribe.
Left without a home
No sense of self to be known.
Where is the truth to be found
Amongst silent lies?

At the edge of the cliff one more time...
My arms outstretched in hope to embrace
A new paradigm,
Leaving the errors of my past behind,
Trying not to lose the friend at my back all of this time.
So I took the dive
Landed in the divide
On my feet a bit wobbly.
In front of me two roads diverge in a wood
And I sigh and wonder
I sigh and wonder...
Will there be another life for me?

I was born under the sun like everyone
And learned how to drive on my own
Moving forward not reverse
Getting stuck in my muddy pride.
Through agony I have kissed truth
And now embark on the road less traveled by
Hoping to cross Love's finish line.