My Road

My road seems to have grown too long
   for my few years
Memories of smiles and tears rise like dust
  from the trail that burns behind me
Some particles swirl in the air around
  on an endless cycle that never finds the ground
    and floats behind me as I travel on

The rest is a cloud that blows away
  as quickly as it rose in life
Words, emotions, events that were not
  of enough importance to linger on
    fell and blew over
  like the stinging lies off a friend's tongue
That brought tears to my eyes
   and added another obstacle to my road

Rumors grow as weeds
  in the path that I leave behind
Some too thick to struggle through
  while there are others that wither quickly
    for they lack real truth to water them
Those that stand on are mistakes and mishaps
  I cannot change

And looking back at those that wither and die
  I thank God
For as I see the weeds of lies as they die
  I gain back my lost faith in those
    whose tongues spewed fallacies for the sake of entertainment

And thus my road winds on
Some dust trailing behind to carry me on
  and some blowing away to be forgotten
Weeds remain to remind me of where
  I must strengthen
And weeds die to remind me that lies
    though spread at any cost
  cannot survive without truth

No matter how long my road winds
  How many weeds remain
    How many weeds die
  How much dust blows on
I'll continue life's ride
  with God at my side
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