Everyday

 

Everyday gets a little harder
The road turns to mazes 
And I
I just can’t find my way

With every stumbling step I make 
I pay
Everyday another tear
Traces its way down my face

You’re going too fast and I’m too weak
I can’t stay in this race
By God’s sweet Grace 
Just let it be, leave me be

I've never had the sun shine on me
I am cloaked in invisibility 
So easy to overlook
Best ignored

Just because I write a poem
Sing a song, have a home
And smile so convincingly 
I’m okay, plainly sane

I’ve got these wild emotions
I can’t set free
You’d think I was crazy 
If you took the time to get to know me

Everyday I believe a lie
Get shot down
By lying eyes
I no longer have enough tears left to cry
So I’ll bottle it up 
Make myself sick
Just to hear your voice again

Where’d that little girl go 
With the pig tails and big brown eyes
It stole her soul more everyday

Spirals chase images 
That’d make a grown man cry
Get away, get away
I can’t stand to feel your touch
And you never bother to ask why

Everyday
Everything begins to change
Searching for the big escape
But it’s too damn late
And it gets harder everyday. 

 

By Amanda M. Burns

© Amanda Saylor nee Burns. All rights reserved