I Wish

 

 

I wish I could share your happiness
I wish I could be free
I wish I was not alone
I wish I could be me

I've been beaten
I've been trapped
My soul’s been tamed
By every man’s crap

I lost my breath
Gave up the fight
Lost myself
My story’s trite

You’re sick
So sick to death 
Of me

I feel I’m loosing sight
Of what was once 
My number one priority
I’m nothing in theory
But I know if I quit now
I’ll never make my go round with destiny

Fate
Thank you for the times I've cried alone
I’m making my way toward home
My ends are closer 
Further from self destruction
Self deduction, resurrection
I see a fate you’ll never own
See the gold and grab you some
Money goes and money comes
When you see happiness
It’s all you want

I can’t take the time 
To join you in the sublime
I have to strive to meet my deadline

I’m not blind to the fact 
That if I go too far I’ll never come back
And the farther I get
The longer I’m gone
Am I so wrong?

My life is a series of tests
If I had a real problem
Alarms would sound
I guess.

By Amanda M. Burns

written in 1999, nothing special

© Amanda Saylor nee Burns. All rights reserved