Note: This is the first in a three-part series.
Nowhere, I'm going nowhere
Surely all these rules are to blame
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This cannot continue, I must be free
But how can I kill this monstrosity?
It feeds off of depression, apathy, and anxiety
While murdering every thing good in me
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I walk the dry land once more, but in a new way
Steps made with confidence, I know where I go, I do not hesitate
The surging, turbulent sea nearly drowned me
But a Savior came and held me above the waters
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Spoken shadows flash with dark lightning all their own;
Have you been struck? , for I see an ominous glow.
Darkness that illuminates light with shadow,
Falsehoods consume you with deadly fire you blindly feed.
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I look up to the sky this lonely night
I find no hope, no light
The stars have fallen tonight
I stand there and all is silence
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Over the years in silent sadness I watch
As dream after dream dies, some slowly, some so quickly
Inside, I die with them; we are one
Sometimes new replaces old, it matters not, all of them die
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Disillusioned
Loss of inspiration
I have so little left to give
Like the knees of jeans reduced to a few strands of thread
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Every time I can’t take another step, I take a few more
Because His grace is sufficient for me
Those times I just want to walk out the door
I find that His grace is sufficient for me
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I am but a mortal man,
This and nothing more, nothing less.
I dream of great things, but can’t even keep my car running.
Looking into the stars,
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