Sorry Mother

Just another day
Going about our ways,
Running around with danger,
Acting like a stranger,
Trying to find ourselves.
Too good for anyone else,
Or maybe the worst
Because we're never first.
Selling out to fakes,
Faking what it takes.
Masks called beauty made from lies
Severe all our sacred ties.
Making something out of it,
All the things we won't admit.
Attempts to rise above
Shot down without any love.
Watching it fall apart
As we complain in our art.
Growing older with younger souls.
Got a logic full of holes.
Again, our generation forms another
Sadly dissapointed mother.

Something Wrong

Another day is flying by.
I don't know why.
Seems as if I'm watching the every day fly
While the exceptional just get by
Because something's always wrong.
As they pick up and carry on
After a past that hurt them,
A pain that drives them,
We all grow and we can smile,
But it can only last a while
Because something's always wrong.
But we pick up and carry on.
You speak of dreams while your eyes of fear.
You know you want to get out of here.
Sometimes the way seems so clear.
But it grows so cloudy, the despair so near
Because something's always wrong.
Something's always wrong,
But you pick up and carry on.
We'll have to learn to put the past away,
Heal the wounds and enjoy the day.
Keep on walking when death blocks the way.
Remember that there's so much right
When something's always wrong
Because something's always wrong.
Something's always wrong.

Identification

What is it? What are you? They all must know.
Before you are allowed to stay or go
Names must be given, specific names, to everything high and low.
Without a name it cannot show.
When everything must be identified
Everything is so closely analyzed.
The unusual are judged the most.
Even the ignorant of the system are forced to toast
To labels and anti-obscurity.
It'll end in madness, probably.
What happened to equality?
Identify or be cast out.
Is this what we've come to be about?
All are judged for what people think they seem to be.
So many are too blind to see.
Even the lonely are not left alone.
Judges with dying minds and hearts of stone
Tell us what cannot be.
So many people too blind to see.
You may buy in, but certainly not me.
I will not be identified
By any of these people's lies.
I am not a stereotype.
I will not wear a coded stripe.
Group one, group two, then me, then you.
We won't give in no matter what they do.
To be an individual is even a label now.
Where is our place to be safe and sound?
Nothing like anyone and anything but anything.
A new song, a new song is the only one we will sing.
Unique in God's eyes, unique as a creation.
The only one I need to identify with is Him in direct relation.

Forgetting Fear

Forget. Forget what holds you back.
Forget what puts you under attack.
Forget what has been wiped away
From the heart of memory.
Forget what has no baring on you now.
Forget the past that was dark and cold.
Forget what hurt you.
Forget how to fall.
Forget how to doubt.
Forget how to despair.
Forget how to do wrong.
Forget how to fear.
Forget how to be
Anything but free.
Remember all that is good.
Remember all that is lovely.
Remember how to love.
Remember how to fly.
Forget how to die.

Blatant Caprice

Once upon a time so real
You told me what you hated to feel.
Something that claimed your heart to steal
The love that could have been there.
Now I know a taste of your pain,
You're reason for the lack of gain,
You're refusal to consider being sane.
It is hard to forgive without a reason.
Thanks to you I know this now.
Such irony has now endowed
Me with an insight not to vow
That I would never do the same as you.
As you once said it's very hard
To without reason, put down guard,
Open heart and move forward.
To forgive without a reason.
I told you that you were a fool.
I said that there must be some rule
That condemned your soul's resilient duel
But now I know I spoke to soon.
After you've ripped me up and spit me out
I'm sure now without a doubt
That it's a struggle all throughout
To forgive without a reason.
This is why I tell you this,
A point I should not ever miss.
Though it may seem ludicrous
It's only right to forgive you now.
I cannot with my own heart
But by the power of the One who gave me start.
By His grace I forgive in part
Also in hope that you may do the same.
BE FREE, BROKEN SON. SUFFER NO MORE.
MY RESENTMENT NO LONGER SITS AT YOUR DOOR.
MAY YOURS NOT OWN YOU LIKE IT DID BEFORE.
May you find God's grace and forgive as He does.

LIGHT

Happiness is real

It's something I can feel

I missed the feeling of sun on my face

I missed the feeling of having a place

Light was shining through this doorway

I walked into it's warming ray

Laughter should be more than an echo of the past

Chilling our bones for as long as we last

Laughter is real, pure and good laughter

The joy is begining to fill us faster

Silence the voices which should not speak

Forget the things that make you weak

Life is too short to live in despair

Freedom awaits you. There are those who care

Light, life, freedom, joy

All these things are possible for us to enjoy

So put down your weapons, take off the masks

All this pain is worthless, for the short time we last

Hiding

My mind goes back to a time so distant

When the air was heavy with the load of whispers in it

Every truth, every lie, every hidden thought

All the hiding, all the searching, the confusion it brought

Oh how the silence screams the truth

In the sickness of our youth

A pair of eyes spoke of a worry

Another soul learned of a pain

Inside a heart, feelings grew blurry

A spirit tried to hold on in vain

Hidden thoughts drown our freedom

A black umbrella hides my face

So many truths. I don't want to see them

Memories have a bitter taste

Mouths say so little. Eyes say so much

So many secrets I fear to touch

That is why I am contented abiding

In this place that some call hiding

Nobody can see me, nor do I want to see them

If knowing is poison, then seeing is its stem

Some say I'm just fearful. I say I am fine

I close my eyes and leave the memories behind