Revelation

How much do I have to lose, Before a different path I choose? How much more can I endure, Before I'm overcome by hurt?

How can I despise and hate, This chaos I love to create? How can I give up control, To the very thing that eats my soul?

It's as if I built a cage, A trap to watch my battles rage, I climbed inside and tossed the key, To make sure I could not break free.

Inside my little cell for one, I slowly seemed to come undone. I struck at made-up enemies, But I was only fighting me.

I clanged the metal, beat the bars, To drown the noise inside my heart. I cried and screamed and cried some more, Til I lay, crumpled, on the floor.

This surely cannot be my fate, There must be some way to escape...Then suddenly, it dawns on me, The answer, right there, plain to see! If I view it as a nightmare, It isn't real, no need to fear!

The moment it's true form is seen, And I realize it is but a dream, Without that fear to hold me down, I start to see the pathway out. I built this cage, I stepped right in, So couldn't I step out again?

My eyes wide open, I've woke to find, that I'M the author of this life. I really can escape this cage, I simply have to turn the page.

I can't go back, I can't rewind, But I can move ahead this time. I know just what I have to do, Begin a chapter all anew. Just leave that cage, no backward look, Let's change the story in my book.