I sit here alone in the still of the night,
I speak out loud am I living right?
I struggle for peace from deep down inside,
So why is it I feel like trying to hide?
My mind and my soul I'm trying to regain,
At times it seems there is so much pain.
Sometimes it seems no matter how hard I try,
Someone is hurt and oh how I cry.
Why are people so cruel to each other in many a way,
Dear Lord I ask this as I pray.
Is there no such thing as peace all around,
I patiently wait but hear not a sound.
I know we all have feelings that's plain to see,
So why do some people think that not of me.
I try my best each day that I live,
But, some people can't seem to ever forgive.
A chip on the shoulder, a grudge or two,
The Lord doesn't want this for me or you.
I capture the stillness in the night air,
As I cry out to God why do people not care......
Judy
She trusted when she was a child,
Her life simple, feelings so mild.
Only the purity of childhood intensity entered her soul.
What was seen was the whole.
Mother held her emotions tightly in her hand,
Father strong, tall, so grand.
How did life become this ordeal?
So complicated, so surreal.
Living sliding away from control,
Each new day a barely obtainable goal.
A struggling survivor of adulthood,
She had to grow up, she wishes she could!
She does what she has to do,
The things that will get her through.
The emotions in her endless days,
Hold captive the remnants of her childhood ways.
A gentle touch, a finger runs down her cheek,
Is this the love, the strength that she seeks?
Entranced for a moment, then slapped back to reality,
What hope has she left, life has no clarity.
Bereft of childhood dreams,
Her life is just what it seems.
A woman who is a child inside,
A child, whose innocence has died.
Splash