Learning to Love Life

Take me back
To a place and a time
Take me back
To when you were mine
Take me back through
Time and space
Take me back
To those feelings of disgrace

Take me back
Like time was erased
Take me back
To when I looked at your face
When all I saw
Was love, hope, and trust
I was blinded
From what would come of us

Take me back
And then throw it in my face
I'll take you back
So you can see the shame
Of what we would
Eventually come to be
The dreadful molded shell
That I now see

Intuitively I know
I'm not the only one who sees
The people neither of us
Ever intended to be
More than any other thing
I hope that you know now
Because of what was done
My life has turned around

Every road traveled
From dawn til dusk
Even the roads
That led to us
Even the paths
I unintentionally took
Every word I've written
From poem to book

Every line that I sing
Every dream I've dreamed
Every person I've met
To every secret I've kept
All the love that I share
For all whom I care
Has all caused me joy
Using life as my toy

Although I say goodbye
To a friend become foe
I benevolently hope
That deep inside you know
Like a strong Redwood
Steady and tall
I have grown the same
In a shell so small

Placed in a hectic world
That frigidly dreams of peace
In this sea of drones
Still I stand at ease
Taking more than I've lost
By persistently learning
Constantly encouraging the good
Of which my soul is yearning

Where ever I'll be
Is the here and now
You can't take me back
You don't know how
To overcome what I've become
From the inside out
To be so deep in happiness
Like floating through the clouds

No longer looking back
Only advanced perpetual motion
All ships forward ho
Through an ever expanding ocean
Of living and learning well
Of loving and caring greatly
Of answers found and answers shared
And the ones we question daily

I'll gladly sail
Through this ocean of life
While enhancing the future
And diminishing the strife
Watching my dreams come true
As I seek the truth
Of life more than it seemed
When there was only you.