More Than This

Just my take on things I see and experience in life and my eternal optimism shining through!

 

Stollin’ down the street, watchin’ people passin’ by

Looking in their faces, seeing pain in their eyes

I wonder to myself is that the story of their bliss?

I want to stop and tell them, don’t give up, there’s more than this.

 

Hungry little boy with the biggest of brown eyes

Mom can’t pay the rent and she has to peddle lies

Just to get some change to buy what her babies need

Filled with such despair she wonders, is there more than this?

 

A daddy holds his daughter knowing he must let her go

She’s going to live with mama and he already knows

He won’t always get to see her and his eyes begin to mist

Heart’s breaking into pieces, she deserves more than this.

 

Standing on the corner, holding a sign for change

He never thought he’d be here, life turned on him, such pain

He wants to crawl into a hole, let the hands of fate tick

But he never quits believing that there’s more to life than this.

 

Came home from work early cause the boss said she could go

But what would soon await her, she had no way to know

She found him there with her best friend, punched him with her fist

She slid down to the floor crying, “I want more than this.”

 

Girls night out, we’re dancing and it’s still the some old lines

Don’t these jerks hear themselves, they all sound just alike

“Baby let me have you, I can be all that you wish”

Driving myself home alone, I wonder, is there more than this?

 

The secret to it all is that we strive for something more

Not knowing where it’ll take us, not always being sure

But knowing that we’re stronger than what it is, or who we’re with

We’re all on the same journey and life is so much more than this.

 

Reviews

[DeAn]

This is by far one of your best Linda! I loved it and it inspires thru each stanza's scenerio for us to find that "more then this" within ourselves and our lives. you have written one for the ages here my friend and I am indeed placing this in my favorites. awesome job!

love ya

l8r g8r
-DeAn

[Sheila Kline]

Oh Linda,
You are so right! How many times does this happen, and this is the question we ask. I like Rock and Roll's answer to this........from what I know of you, truly you do deserve the best that life has to offer!
You paint the ugly deal of it here, with all the feelings of hurt!!
Love, Sheila

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

No doubt there is more to life and the key first is loving yourself and putting faith in who you are then you can spread it around and find what you need... remember the words of the Rolling Stones "You can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you get what you need".

I know a wonderful person like you has so much to give and therefore deserves so much wonderful things.

[just is]

Oh! Wow! Girl you have penned amazing write here, i can feel emotion to no end in this. This is truthful as well as sad really. I can feel this subject matter.

[Chemistry]

Life is the gathering of the flowers we pick along the way. The saying of stop and smell the roses is apprapo. When I fell like there should be more than this, I look back and see the family and friends I have gathered along the way. I smell the sensations of past memories and feel the love given and received.