Balance
There's a party in my brain
The DJ wants to keep playing
But I'm tired of dancing
At least the way he wants me to
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to
Sometimes I just break down
Just sitting there under the disco ball
Where is that fine, delicate balance
I'm trying so hard to find
Can I grasp and hold onto it
While my brain takes in the daily grind?
Surely this "even keel" thing
Is not as eluding as it seems
I must look inside myself
And hold onto my hopes and dreams.
The Truth Within
An odyssey of the mind
A dark path into emptyness
Fear in the soul that is a lie
Leads the heart to the truth within
People of all journeys of life
A sea of humanity
I'm drowning in the middle
But they are trying to lend me
A raft that I just can't see
I want to connect
But my brain tells me lies
These people are talking about me,
Thinking I'm stuck up or worse
But my heart and soul long to reach out
That is my nature
The great thing is
That love and kindness always prevail
I swim to safety
And reconnect with what I've feared I lost
Slowly but surely that sea of humanity
Is not so scary
It is beautiful and exciting as I have always seen it
That is the truth within
People
Some are with us for only a moment
Others are with us for a weekend, a few short weeks or months
A few grace us with their presence for a lifetime
We meet each of these folks
Each with a name and a soul all their own
At many different spaces of time
Throughout our time on Earth
Not everyone we see will be remembered
Lost somewhere in the abyss of our memory
Others put wrinkles into it,
Some great, others horrible
But there just the same
Those rare and beautiful few
Who are lucky enough
To know you, really know you
Go well beyond placing a ripple of memory in your mind
They are those who place a stitch into you soul
Mend it when it needs healing,
Lift it up when it has been crushed
Each of us need these people in our lives
We also need to be these people to others
I believe God created humanity
In that way on purpose
Perhaps one of the reasons why
Is that through this process,
God hopes we find Him, too.
