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
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
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
Climbing mountains – upward trail
Step by step this height to scale
Gurgling brook measuring time
On a long and steadfast climb
Climbing mountains – up so high
Rolling peaks touch clear blue sky
So far above our place and time
The height, the power of the climb
Climbing mountains – safe retreat
The place where sky and mountains meet
Towering rocks stand strong through time
A shelter from the weary climb
Climbing mountains – heart aglow
Traveling back to earth below
Hold this treasure for all time
The hope, the victory of the climb
