Let Me Live

What would I do if I didn't get to see your gray hair anymore? Your old age magnifies me it sends a needle through my door. When I was young, I didn't think people could ever grow old it makes you see how your mind leaves you lost without wrongs. Digging through the ground I see bones, stretched out bodies, and I say a prayer to Heaven let their souls be eternal. I lost the destroyed dream. Why must we wake? Why do we fall? We all suffer and death takes us all. Death is like a fake doll looking for pain. I looked in the mirror and saw time in a glass frame. I am drifting away and those gray hairs are fading fast. All of Dad's lost days and his new bitter years to come. Half of a glass to go and his age will leave me alone. So I asked God tonight let me sleep again don't take my life. I like seeing the sunset and morning. I am sure things are pretty up there but I have loved ones to soothe me here. I want to live! Free as a bird. Pretty as the world. Flying through this place we call earth from the first day of my birth. New wings for me, torn. Not another lost wing gone. All around me aged thorns. Years ahead and I love this life let me live please.