Sunlight and Shadows


Category: Metaphor

  • Falling

    It’s funny how falling off of a cliff

    Does not always happen in one moment swift

    Sometimes you don’t know that you started down

    Til the last bit of sliding when you hit the ground

    And everything hurts, and everyone’s gone

    You’ve plunged into darkness, can’t see to go on

    It’s funny how falling off of a cliff

    Is sometimes only a feeling, as if

    The world is crumbling from under your feet

    When really it’s only shifting your seat

    And maybe the landscape contracted or grew

    But you’re still on top, if you can push through

    ,
  • Change

    Sometimes change comes on little cat feet

    Tiptoes in and snatches a seat

    Lurks in a corner til you notice it’s there

    And challenges you to meet its stare

    Sometimes change comes in a tidal wave

    No warning or chance to escape it gave

    Before striking and washing all plans out to sea

    Leaving a brand new reality

    Sometimes change comes as an ice cold wind

    Creeping, filling where warmth had been

    Invisibly changing the air that you breathe

    No choice but to act or you will freeze

    ,
  • Overcome

    Seems like life just spins too fast

    I barely duck as things fly past

    I swing and hit, can’t even see

    The targets where each ball should be

    I’m thrown off balance more each time

    And each day, plans turn on a dime

    This onslaught has no end in sight

    All I can do is stand and fight

    Seems like life just rocks the boat

    So much I hardly stay afloat

    The waves slash in over the rail

    Leaks spring faster than I can bail

    Too dark to tell if I’m on course

    Just face into the storm’s full force

    While pulling through and pressing on

    All I can do is wait for dawn

    Victory comes from hardest fights

    Dawn breaks after darkest nights

    Faith can every mountain move

    We’re more than conquerors through love

    ,
  • The Optimist

    Why do you play with fire

    When you can’t help getting burned?

    Why do you give your trust away

    Before it has been earned?

    Why do you let your thoughts

    Run away on a wild horse?

    Why do you take a swing

    Without looking at the course?

    Why do emotions’ waves

    Roughly wash you out to sea?

    Why don’t you learn to ride

    The storm out peacefully?

    Why do you do the same thing

    And expect a different end?

    Why do you think your fantasy

    Is just around the bend?

    ,
  • Not Me

    I am a mirror, a looking glass

    I copy you while you go past

    I’ll show you what you want to see

    Without ever showing me

    I am a shy chameleon too

    I change from green to brown to blue

    I’ll be okay if I blend in

    Hide beneath a shifting skin

    I am an unformed lump of clay

    I’ll mold to any shape you say

    I cannot harden into me

    Since I’ve no unique form to be

    I am a frosty icicle

    A brittle, cold, transparent soul

    Drips of past that caught and froze

    I’ll melt away if you get close

    Reflect, refract, reform, react

    Will I ever see how to be me?

    ,
  • Tunnel

    I stand on the edge looking down in

    So dark, so deep, nowhere to begin

    I step back away, I’d rather just hide

    Than have to go on to the unknown inside

    I could turn my back and just stay here

    It’s nothing exciting, but nothing to fear

    But I take the first step down into the dark

    Feeling for a rung, a ladder, a mark

    I stumble at first, I slip and I stall

    But I know if I keep holding on, I won’t fall

    I find my footing – now I can see

    What all the darkness was hiding from me

    For you have to step into the darkness before

    Your eyes can adjust to see the next door

    ,