Sunlight and Shadows


Category: Frustration

  • Mixed Up

    My thoughts are such a jumble

    They rattle, spin and tumble

    The words I thought I said

    Mean something else instead

    The feelings that I’m feeling

    Are trapped by a glass ceiling

    And when I try to write

    The words I want take flight

    My life is so unknown right now

    We will get through, I’m not sure how

    My plans rock back and forth each day

    I know that there will be a way

    I don’t have to know it all

    Or get it right on every call

    I’m not alone out in this stream

    And I know I can trust our team

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  • Risk

    Take a risk and

    Run with it

    Once you’ve chosen

    Don’t back down

    Follow it through

    To the end

    It’s okay then

    To turn around

    It doesn’t mean

    That you failed

    You always learn

    Something new

    You’re further now

    Than before

    Now you know what

    You need to do

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  • Trapped

    I’m fenced inside a cage again

    Trapped in fear and isolation

    Self-destructed my safety guide

    Burned all the bridges to the outside

    So now I rail against the bars

    Resist, shrink back against old scars

    I’m stuck, I realize now too late

    I’m lost and hopeless in this fate

    No – loss is losing those I love

    Concern and care will rise above

    The pit of greed, self-pity, fail

    I will break free of this trapped jail

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  • Villainous Character

    You’re so bad, you’re so messed up

    You live to manufacture pain

    Your only wish is others’ hurt

    To take their loss for your own gain

    You lie in wait to pounce and steal

    While hidden in the dark of lies

    You strike to plunder and destroy

    Another’s life your greatest prize

    You have no shame or guilt at all

    The world owes you for all you’ve lost

    Others should hurt and suffer too

    Revenge has a bottomless cost

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  • Words

    What do words mean? Tell me without words

    They’re mere vibrations lost in the air

    A finite selection of sounds and pauses

    Only make sense if a listener is there

    The speaker thinks this, says that, this way

    The hearer gets half and imagines more

    Memory selectively picks, stores, recalls

    Words lost or altered while feelings endure

    Words everywhere, all the time, drowning in words

    In one place harmless and another place betray

    Speak your own ruin before you can stop it

    Til you find yourself tied up with no words to say

    What enormous power in words can be had

    For they can work great good or unending bad

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  • Low Point

    No words, no thoughts, empty inside

    Worries, feelings, can barely hide

    Try to reach out, you know you should

    Wrong things, wrong time, misunderstood

    It’s okay, it’s just today

    You won’t always feel this way

    Jump in, get back into the game

    You’re still so far from where you came

    You really have good things to share

    And people notice if you’re there

    A low point means you’ve grown somehow

    Things will start getting better now

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