Stop – pause in this moment
You can let reality be real
Acknowledge your feelings
Know truth apart from how you feel
Breathe – release the tension
You can stop holding on so hard
Relax into safety
Give room to heal the bruised and scarred
Hear – tune into the present
You can listen for what is true
Let thoughts and feelings fade
Understand life from this new view
Care – hold onto your world
You can love yourself always
Connect, bond to others
Live where good can fill the days
I am fighting
Fighting a war I didn’t begin
Fighting a battle from within
Fighting and determined to win
I was a prisoner
A prisoner of a troubled past
A prisoner of the role I was cast
A prisoner but not the last
I am fighting
Fighting to escape tyranny
Fighting for who I was meant to be
Fighting hard for victory
I will be free
Free to love without demand
Free to give a helping hand
Free to take my own true stand
All the light we cannot see
Yet fills our blood with yearning so
The pull of new discovery
The faith in things we do not know
We press on sure to find the door
The innate longing to be free
The light that led me to a crack
Where I could see but could not reach
The slap that caused me to pull back
And listen to what it would teach
The crushing truth on hopes of youth
I grew to stand within the breach
Sunrise dawn’s brave beams of light
To bathe the soul from night’s dark wake
The tumult of the storm set right
The midnight watch we each must make
To find our place, to run our race
And build a love that cannot break
When the world is crumbling beneath your feet
No path to go forward, nowhere to retreat
Plans go up in smoke, life’s not what you know
Where do you run to, where do you go?
When you’ve fallen down so many times you can’t count
Too tired, too broken, but still battles mount
It feels like you’re losing more fights than you’ve won
Where do you find the strength to keep on?
When the road just keeps turning and winding so steep
The obstacles mount, it’s near too big a leap
You wonder if you’re even on the right road
Where do you find new speed when you’ve slowed?
There’s only one place of sufficient grace
He’ll walk with you, whatever you face
Let go, don’t hold so tight inside
Stop fighting change and the unknown
Don’t go back where you used to hide
Release the fear and worry stone
You will never be alone
Reject the voice of guilt and wrong
You don’t deserve to live in pain
Don’t let blame sit where you belong
Stand strong and walk against the grain
You won’t be helpless again
Step outside of patterns set
Push back the past’s influence here
Don’t live in guilt, shame, or regret
Reclaim the truth and hold it dear
You don’t have to live in fear
