Freedom.

What is the price of freedom?

To live in a world,

Without anger and fear.

To have a life we can rely on,

Where our nations are not felled,

And death isn’t always near.

I don’t want to go to war,

I don’t want to be blasted off the earth,

Why can’t we all live in peace?

Why do we always have to fight?

Why can’t the world work together in peace?

And then we can all have eternal freedom.

The Things I'll Never Do.

If my time on Earth were through,

What about all the things I’ll never do?

I will never know,

How sweet my life could be.

I would never travel across the great sea,

To the exotic lands I would now never see,

Never set foot on foreign soil,

And think of the things I’ll never do.

What if I died before this dawn?

And my children are never born,

I will never hold them in my arms,

And tell them of the things I’ll never do.

O Lord please don’t take my life away,

At least not today,

Give me a chance to live life,

And the things I’ll never do.

Fear.

Everything is fine,

Until you start to think,

There is a sudden lapse in time,

And everything just stops.

Your heart beats so fast,

As you struggle to find breath,

Wondering how long it will last,

And how it’s going to end.

Soon you start to cry,

Even though it has happened before,

You still think you are going to die,

As your chest closes in.

You see the people around you,

And wonder who will care to help,

What are you going to do,

When your world turns black?

You want to cry out loud,

Wishing it to end,

Without a friendly face in the crowd,

You are left to suffer alone.

If Only.

If I could turn back time,

I would go back and say all the things I never did,

If only I’d tried harder.

I didn’t understand all the changes,

You never took the time to explain,

If only you’d tried harder.

Now it has come to this,

The blood has thinned on our paternal bond,

If only we’d both tried harder.

Panic.

Walking down the street,

Your chest feels so tight,

Breathing becomes heavy,

As your head becomes light.

Then it starts to hurt,

And your palms become sweaty,

Confusion clouds your mind,

Not knowing what to do,

Stop or carry on.

The only thing that is certain,

Is you don’t want to be alone,

Your life is unravelling before you,

But who will hold your hand?

Lonely Times

I am standing out here high up on the balcony watching the world go by,

All of those people down there below have a reason to be there,

They all have their own lives to lead whatever they may be.

The rain falling down reflects the tears which I often cry,

Watching over people lead their lives makes me realise just how empty mine is,

Everything I ever had and all the people that I ever loved are now gone.

My whole life is like a black hole,

Every time there is a chance of a rainbow it disappears into the great unknown.

I feel as though my life is spiralling around and around forever searching for the light at the end of the tunnel.

Rage.

It eats away at you deep inside,

Until you want to run and hide,

Because you know that it is going to erupt,

And someone is going to get hurt.

You try to keep some self control,

Finding a way to keep your cool,

But no matter how hard you try,

Your blood starts to boil dry.

Then it explodes,

And there is pain for all concerned,

The rage will have its way,

And a powerful lesson is soon learnt.

You can’t keep it in,

And you can’t let it out,

It doesn’t matter how hard you try,

The rage will always win.