Life

Life A force with to be reckon That's constantly being re-written But I only need 244 seconds And for you all to listen So stop and let's set aside opinions We all stand here today With each of us telling our own separate story Of how we got here Of why we're here Of why we are this way The things we may have seen Heard Done Did It's makes us all different But united just the same And all of these words are apart of a greater story I say em with a heavy heart And arms opened wide Hoping to help someone else from the dark To hopefully fuel a fire Or even just to light a spark We may come from a broken home Maybe someone left you Feeling so alone While maybe some of you have been persecuted Completely done wrong Loved ones lost Maybe a choice we made Came at too great a cost Thinking we need to hang ourself From a rope Pull a trigger And end it all Standing on top of a mountain Just to take your greatest fall Each one of us is living our very own cautionary tale We could tell Each other Over a million different ways We could possibly fail Thinking our burdens Are simply too big to bare That's life It's full of ups and downs It beats you down Throws you in the deep end Waiting for you to drown And just as life begins to throw you away You feel a loving hand grabbing you Pulling you back in And assuring you things'll be okay I couldn't tell a number Of times I felt that way So many people in my life Walked away Crossed out my name And I'd be lying if I didn't say I wasn't ready to give weigh But the ones I still call family Keep helping me not to break That doesn't mean I'm saying I don't wake up everyday with pain Because I do What I am saying is that I'm finding a way to live with it each day But for some It's just not that easy For far too many They count life as a loss And tragically take the defeat While others are down to nothing Living on the street Some of us can't even stand on our own two feet Can't eat Can't sleep Can't function properly Anxiety and depression is on the rise And society's solution Is what New meds with side effects that'll have em dead in a week Whatever happened to really being there And letting someone know you really do care And telling them that now And not wishing we had When it's already too late That's life It's a gift that's feeling more like a curse And it's only getting worse We see a spike in careers as a nurse We all know why Death is a constant Grow old and die And return to the dirt And for the family it hurts But that's not even the worst We try and put the pieces back together Make it work But we never fill the void left by you We're reminded everyday That life no longer has us together as two Even God couldn't count The tears we cry For the reasons we cry We may never even know why If we stop and stare long enough You can see the broken In each other's eyes Put up a guard We could speak the truth a thousand times But people would only believe They're all lies. Backs filled with knives Life's a roll of the dice Divorces spike Countless suicides happen every night The bulb must be missing Cuz there sure isn't a lot of light Some kids'll grow up Never knowing their own father And he sure won't know them Reaching out he doesn't bother Alcohol for the mother Drugs for the daughter Murder for the brother That's life Without a doubt I can say This whole Pen and Paper thing Served for me As a bit of closure Tomorrow Life will start writing all our new chapters As this one The page is turning over But before it closes I know how important it is To be there To remind someone that it'll be okay There's always a new dawn approaching And I'll be there every step of the way With a song With a message Hoping to help someone else from out the darkness And that That right there Is life