Eyesight

I have seen forests and open fields.
I have seen weapon everyone wields.
I have seen what it's like to have love and lost.
I have seen what there is to gain and exhaust.

I have seen the face of enemy and friend.
I have seen the cause I choose to defend.
I have seen the tears on an entitled face.
I have seen what it's like to fall from grace.

I have seen what is left when we lose it all.
I have seen how to avoid another fall.
I have seen through the eyes of the bird.
I have seen things that can just be heard.

I have seen the living and the dead.
I have seen through the back of my head.
I have seen directly into the sun.
I have seen the damage it had done.

I have seen all through blurred visions.
I have seen most right and wrong decisions.
I have seen all what is and is not mine.
I have seen adrenaline slow down time.

I have seen the different flavors of my soul.
I have seen the different places we can go.
I have seen what is to be lost and what is to gain.
I have seen the brightest day and the hardest rain.

Connect The Dots

The structures all around me don't look familiar.
They twist and warp in all kinds of ways.
Through curtains of night I felt so peculiar.
I whisked right on through to better days.

Embrace me with your sympathy.
I can only do so much with these dirty hands.
Humor me with your hilarity.
You make me laugh so hard it kills the man.

And up in the clouds where we can hardly breathe.
We connected bright dots of cities instead of stars.
It's not the same as we did once believe.
Connecting dots is so much harder with cars.

But now we are touching down.
The ride was fun but now it's closing time.
Let's go back to our hometown.
And everything we've known will be just fine.

Peace of Mind

Four miles down, but many more to go.
These days I've been taking it very slow.
I was soaked from leaping out that pool of regret.
Still you helped dry me off and I am in your debt.

I take back what I said as I clung to the forbidden tree.
I am so very lucky to find out that you still love me.
To believe in good faith that I am unlike other men.
To observe in good faith as I have begun to live again.

There are no more nightmares and no more demons
There are only dreams of better times and better seasons.
As I ran through the cheering crowd in the last race,
Eager hands stroked my grinning, sweat drenched face.

And it makes me happy to see all the smiles intact.
I find comfort in the open arms that welcome me back.
My troubled mind is finally at ease.
For no longer am I living on my knees.