I take Your Name

I let myself fall

Stumble, roll and hit the prickly shrubs 

I may bleed a little and it may hurt

And I take your name, 

Stand 

Clinch my eyes as I remove the thorns 

And I take your name 

And brush the dirt on my elbows and knees 

And I take your name 

And gently dab the blood 

That stays still, dry, cracked, stuck in the scratches 

I move on... 

I come to a bridge

And I look at it 

A mighty gush of water hitting the sharp rocks below 

The unsteady rope and wood luring me 

Into what could possibly be another adventure 

Or not?

Waiting - on the other side 

But what if I fall, yet again? 

The heart races as the mind calculates the danger 

The palms sweat as the heart pelts it's warning to me

Then I take your name 

And see you in each heart beat 

I see you waiting for me under 

To hold me when I trip

I see you waiting on the other side 

To hold my hand 

As you lead me 

Onward into my next journey 

And I take your name

With each breath - 

And I take a step forward... 

Life, and life

If only life were that simple
And I didn't have to endure
My lessons, my karma,
If only I was sure
That this round of working
On myself and my issues
Would peel the layers one last time
Finishing up my last box of tissues
Feeling the pain and healing the core
Would ease it all away
Ah so naive my thought was
So easily I could sway

It never ends, does it
It's not really like an onion peel
It's a spiral that holds u in the center
With each turn, another one u see
It's a lifelong worths of lessons to be learnt
A lifetimes worth of self polishing
And when this round is done and you think it's over
All you're doing is waiting
For another opportunity to come one more time
To be born, to live, to die, to create another rhyme.

Lost and found

Can you be found if you weren't lost in the first place? Can you find light if you weren't lost in the dark? 

Will you seek answers if you didn't have unanswered questions? Would you continue to have questions if life didn't push you toward asking them?

Would you feel compelled to ask if life didn't throw situations at you that everything you already knew couldn't answer? Would you strive to understand life if what everything you thought you understood didn't make sense anymore? 

Would you seek sense if you weren't plagued by situations you didn't understand? Would you want to understand if you weren't plauged by situations that you didn't? 

Answers to all of these questions answer one simple basic fact of life. That we seek answers to lifes greater questions only when we have to face it's adversity. And that life's greatest lesson is taught only through it's greater hardships. 

If you're lost and looking, be assured that your answers will follow. And that you will be found. After the darkest night of the soul, comes the most beautiful sunrise. 

That's life.