melissa

             Time To Face The Day

   Rise and shine,
   sleepy head.
   Where have you been?
   The day is past,
   the light is gone,
   and now the darkness comes.

   How clever you are
   you sneaky thief,
   stealing away your glimpse of time --
   taking it away
   with you to dreamland.

   So you've found your place,
   you've found your peace,
   your slice,
   your little sliver of life away.
   Rise and shine,
   sleepy head.

   I know where you've been:
   the place I think I'd like to be
   during all my days,
   the dull meantime days
   while you're pining away.

   I'm living in the light of day
   so the darkest nights
   I can keep at bay.
   And what I see,
   I see with certainty,
   though it's mostly a brutal reality
   it's truth.

   It's truth.
   No! No!
   Wake up!

   You're not sleeping this day away.
   How dare you leave me
   here alone,
   lonely and angry
   while I face my fears
   with eyes of tears
   away?

   Open your eyes
   Unclose your mind.
   Let your heart out into the sun
   and face the day
   with me.

   I can hold your hand
   and you can hold my heart
   and with our masks off
   our faces will tell all,
   all the truth we've both been hiding.

   So come out, come out,
   wherever you are --
   wherever I've lost me --
   in the nights of altered reality.
   No more sleeping.

   No more hiding now.
   Today's the day
   we face each other.
   Today's the day
   we face the truth.

   Posted 1/9/02