| My Road; Part II Sitting here looking back The crossroads seem so clear For in my past there was a time As they were drawing near That I felt the road behind me Slipping away as I passed Before me hung a cloud of fog And into the haze I grasped For some answer to the questions A sign as to which road to take I stopped there for a moment That felt like eternity I ceased my travels for a time So I could stop and see Behind me the path was blurry My heart as heavy as led For I'd loved so hard my heart was gone And I knew that love was dead I shook off all the shadows And began to journey on The crossroads came into sight The cloud of fog was gone One road's name was "Lonely" Another "Easy Street" But the one that caught and held my eye Was simply called "Risky" It was filled with curves and hills And appeared too hard to pass But at the end I could see a glow Something I had to have So I took a right down "Risky Street" Stopping briefly to look behind Blew a kiss to the "what if's" & "maybe's" Then tucked them away in my mind And now I stand in the golden glow At another journey's end Looking back at the crossroads That are now a long lost friend Above the crossroads hangs a cloud Behind which peeks the sun A few drops of rain steadily fall And I see the meaning to each one For in my past was a cloud of doubt And happiness that like the sun did shine Many tears of pain did fall But they live on in another time A steady glow surrounds me now Of all I've gained and learned I traveled long and hard to find This home for which I yearned Copyright 2002 Lauren Blackstone |