Sunlight and Shadows


Category: Struggle

  • Rising Above

    Why do we walk in paths unknown

    When we could do what we’ve been shown?

    Why do we seek out higher ground

    When we could stop and hang around?

    Why do we, walking, try to run

    And doing, find more to be done?

    Why do the lights on distant hills

    Bring longing pangs and subtle thrills?

    We toil and labor all day long

    The constant, endless tasks, a throng

    With weary hands and tired sight

    Our minds cannot stop taking flight

    To things that rise above the fray

    To what could be, a better day

    A time beyond just fighting through

    A hope that gives us strength anew

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  • Three Ships

    I saw a ship come sailing in

    I thought it was for me

    I rowed out in my little boat

    To meet my ship at sea

    When I got there, ‘twas a mirage

    With nowhere for my grasp to lodge

    A holographic hope collage

    Fake things that cannot be

    Then came a ship fast on my stern

    That one was real enough

    It brought great winds and stormy skies

    And billowing waves so rough

    All I could do was try to float

    Bailing water from my boat

    As pain and trials round me smote

    To call my dreaming bluff

    In clearing skies a third ship came

    After the storm did break

    From distant sea it beckoned me

    To follow in its wake

    It shows the way where few have gone

    With guiding light it leads me on

    In faith to sail through night to dawn

    How e’er long it may take

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  • Ambush

    Like a deer in the headlight

    Is fear in the dead of night

    You freeze by degrees as you stand there wide-eyed

    It’s illusive, irrational

    And it feels insurmountable

    A creeping and deepening mountain of trouble

    You have to show you despise it

    That you know the sly lies that it

    Hides on all sides in a maze of disguises

    Make the past fall behind you

    Shake the last walls of residue

    Til you’re grounded in now and the future of new

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  • Pennies

    In for a penny, in for a pound

    Never give up until you have found

    Not just the pieces but the answer in full

    Or you’ll never know how close was the goal

    In for a penny, in for a pound

    Hard work is scarce while opinions abound

    Too often the answer is known by none

    Until you’ve slogged through the race to be run

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  • Unknown

    What will happen if I let go?

    Is it okay if I don’t know?

    Will I see before it’s too late?

    Will I lose out if I wait?

    How can I survive this change?

    What happens when life’s rearranged?

    Will I lose the things I need?

    Will I know how to succeed?

    How can I keep myself on track?

    How can I keep from looking back?

    Will I know how to make it through?

    Can I be strong and wise and true?

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  • Hard Pressed

    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

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