Catching Breath

Standing on a stage

microphone in my hands

shaky but trying to 

keep it together like the bands

Six-year-old hands clinging to the railing

of my old two-story LA home

while listening to my parents fight 

and feeling far too alone

"There is a castle on a cloud,"

I sang a lullaby to myself every night

"Where no children cry,"

Wishing it'll all be alright.

Even just last night,

sitting on the ground of a Walmart restroom

crying my eyes out for too many reasons 

just wanting to be alone in my bedroom

Life is a roller coaster

without any seatbelt

you just gotta hold on tight

and hope you'll be alright. 

It's like the catching of a breath

in space

seems impossible, but God you'll find a way

there'll always be a way.

Author's Note

Looking back on your life and realizing that there's always a light at the end of the tunnel.

Reviews

[Invisible]

we all gotta try, even if we fall, trying is sometimes all we have in us.

[Admiral Kirk]

Whoa... Nice one... Very hopeful poem... :)

[Chaos_Collector]

Pretty gloomy in the beginning, but a nice hopeful end. hope things turn out alright. Nicely written by the way

Chaos_Collector