Stage

Led into starlit fields

All seems so unreal

I grasp your hand, afraid

This beauty I do not know

The cities we left

Were all I understood

Those memories will fade

From when I was so low

 

This scene overwhelms me

I’m on a stage no one sees

You are the only audience

Watching as I play the role of me

 

I stumble off the set

Just before the curtains met

Sweat and tears, I shake and wept

Frozen while I’m soaking wet

 

I made it here on my own

Or so I thought, the truth unknown

Your hands pushed me forward

While all I did was roam

 

For so long, I felt so alone

I was running from what I’d known

Selfish and young, ignorant

Yet, so many seeds have I sewn

 

The scene confounds me

On this stage no one sees

You are not the audience

Rather the support for me

 

I grasp your hand tight

Before I make things right

Uncertain, I gaze into night

But with all my might, I will fight

My newfound insight, will take us to new heights

 

Broken and tattered

I clutched to those cities

Afraid of what was beyond

A frightened tranquility

You led me so far

I thought it was pity

But now I face reality

As you only wish to be with me

 

The scene changes once more

And a new stage than before

You capture all the audience

Who applaud with great roar

 

We play out our roles

Cast from our own molds

A story real and uncompromising

Where nothing is left untold