Twelve Steps
Thinking of every sad song i ever heard
Meloncholy waves displaying the heaviest words
Knowing daylight will break the spell of my nightmares
No hazy overtones to mask the putrid odor of clean air
Feeling labor of tomorrow, i hide under covers
I sacrificed the warmth of burning trees for a lover
Selfishly, I apologized for those dark days of demons
Cause guilt was eating me alive, like a sin
So I journeyed to distant lands full of splendor
With sad souls remembering last november
We wasted a high for the lost days of peace time
Instead, I was burning my friends with false lines
With the weight of expectations, i sing
Releasing cracked foundations of spring
Those shallow graves we dug, filled with rain
Summer skies whisper “we all feel the same”
One more day tells the story of what we had lost
With serenity, accepting what chaos has cost
Courage to give us the strength to face the truth
Hope for the future with stories of wasted youth
Copyright © Laura Dee | Year Posted 2020
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