Chances
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:34 pm
A name for all things
A label to bear
A folder to file
On a ladder, the stair.
A precipice looming
My shadow I fear
Will abandon my side
In the darkness I near.
What faith do I call on
To lend me its light?
Perhaps knowledge that taking
The next step is right.
What line divides
The mind from the heart?
What courage can keep
Them from ripping apart?
As the time comes to act
I must hesitate not
My doubt and frustration
Must all be forgot.
Here I stand alone
And scared on the cliff
Plagued by the worrisome
Query "What if?"
A name for all things
A label to bear
A folder to file
On a ladder, the stair
So simple it seems
To analyse thus
To organize life
To remove all the fuss.
Yet beneath it all stirs
Like a festering pool
That unending feeling
That life is just cruel.
Then a shadow of doubt
Emerges and pleas
My life is not shaped
By simplistic decrees.
Around every corner
May be an abyss
But those who fear darkness
Will never know bliss.
A label to bear
A folder to file
On a ladder, the stair.
A precipice looming
My shadow I fear
Will abandon my side
In the darkness I near.
What faith do I call on
To lend me its light?
Perhaps knowledge that taking
The next step is right.
What line divides
The mind from the heart?
What courage can keep
Them from ripping apart?
As the time comes to act
I must hesitate not
My doubt and frustration
Must all be forgot.
Here I stand alone
And scared on the cliff
Plagued by the worrisome
Query "What if?"
A name for all things
A label to bear
A folder to file
On a ladder, the stair
So simple it seems
To analyse thus
To organize life
To remove all the fuss.
Yet beneath it all stirs
Like a festering pool
That unending feeling
That life is just cruel.
Then a shadow of doubt
Emerges and pleas
My life is not shaped
By simplistic decrees.
Around every corner
May be an abyss
But those who fear darkness
Will never know bliss.
