Sunlight and Shadows


Category: Struggle

  • 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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  • Hard Road

    It hurts to keep on falling down

    To spend time getting off the ground

    I wish for perfect, no mistakes

    But now I see the time it takes

    Until the skill is learned and found

    It hurts to try the best I know

    Then pangs of judgement haunt me so

    I want to always call it right

    But I can’t tell from this new height

    Always the certain way to go

    It hurts to walk in paths so new

    Break in a trail where thickets grew

    I look for markers of the way

    But I can’t in the safe place stay

    And reach the place I should be too

    Sometimes it feels so hard to do

    But the only way forward is through

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  • Storm

    Waves crash over me

    My boat is lost at sea

    Winds gust to and fro

    And I with them go

    Skies so dark close in

    Can’t see where to begin

    Hopelessly off course

    No way to reverse

    Yet there is a light

    Piercing through the night

    It will guide my boat

    If I can stay afloat

    I can turn the sail

    So wind does not prevail

    The compass still will show

    Which way I should go

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  • Heartbreak

    A broken hope of taken dreams

    The loss of worlds we make in dreams

    The truth I thought that I could trust

    Turned out be mistaken dreams

    The world is crumbling round my heart

    I fall beneath my shaken dreams

    I vow to never dream again

    Bury the past’s forsaken dreams

    My heart stands fast, will not let go

    Its broken shards awaken dreams

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  • Walls

    An avalanche of endless walls

    Everywhere I turn

    So many climbs, so many falls

    Will I ever learn

    A false façade of fake success

    Tempts me to keep on

    All hollow – break through and regress

    Just another con

    How bleak life looks if there’s no hope

    To escape these walls

    Reduced each day to try to cope

    With the pain of falls

    But there is still a lifeline rope

    Listen when He calls

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  • Faith

    Tell me, is there something out there

    I can find if I keep on?

    Tell me, is all that I worked for

    Still inside or is it gone?

    Tell me, where are all the people

    That I thought were friends of mine?

    Tell me, whether this direction

    Levels out on down the line?

    I can tell you, it’s not easy

    To have faith when you can’t see

    I can tell you all the times we

    Acted on uncertainty

    I can tell you, you may never

    Know why things were like they were

    I can tell you every detour

    Made us press on even more

    Faith is acting, not just hoping

    Things will work out down the road

    Live today with trust and courage

    Worry just weighs down your load

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