Ode To My Past

Here's to you because you have taught me.. To arise above the pain that life has brought me. If it wasn't for you I would never know.. When I stood at the cross roads which way to go. You taught me to focus, see beyond my eyes.. Press toward the mark never ever compromise. I saluate you 'ole' past, and all I've done wrong.. Things I can change even the things I can't atone. These were the things from which I cried at night.. Decisions I've made when I chose to call wrong right. Here's to you 'ole past' because you have taught me.. To rise above the pain that life has brought me.