Baggage

We all carry baggage with us, some are more burdened than others

Life is a story

An empty book

Each day we write another page

Love is a great tragedy

Out to the audience we look
This is center stage

Each act changes the play

Yet we try to remain the same

We play out our roles

As we make our way

Through this chess game

We must avoid the holes

And traps that lie ahead

On life’s rocky road

If we hold our heads high

Stop thinking we’re better off dead

That we can’t handle the load

We must remember why

 

Before we learn to walk at all

We have to learn to crawl

Life’s not so bad

If you learn to start small

It doesn’t do you any good at all

To be so sad

If you can keep your head up high

And not feel so livid

For my dear in love

The limit is the cerulean sky

Painted with colors so vivid

Ones you could only dream of

I only hope there is still time

Trying to mend a broken heart

Is like trying to find

Two words that rhyme

For to even start

You must open your mind

 

The quixotic look in your eyes

Cannot conceal what lies beneath

Hidden in between the lines

Running through the skies

As we lay upon the heath

On a bead of tines

The blood runs from our veins

As we waste away here

Broken by the lies from the past

For you, all that remains

Is to replace all your fear

With a love that will last

It tears me apart inside

Knowing what he did to you

As he dug his teeth

Deeper into your side

For his love was untrue

Lies and deception lied beneath

 

As we stare at the star of morning

Perhaps we can find hope

In each others eyes

There is no more scorning

For together we can cope

With all that dies

Such disastrous finds

In our personal hells

Where we can no longer live

In our troubled minds

Like prison cells

Holding us captive

But much like the rising sun

If we join together

And walk down this rocky road

When all is said and done

After all the storms we’ll weather

I know together we can handle the load