Down The Boiling Trail

Detach myself from this redundant and stale routine

Rid my life of torments that to others go unseen

Living this way each day has become so disheartening

Start rebuilding instead of allowing further crumbling

I’ve walked so far down this lonely boiling trail

This trail that wants to lead me to where I’ll fail

I’ve derailed

Time to stop now and go back

Stop and get back on the tracks

Most people are typically false and very self absorbed

Tell the lie that on them you can rely and then you’re ignored

Rid my life of fading relics of years already completed

Will not allow myself to be taken advantage of and deflated

Walking on this tattered trail I look to my side

This whole time by me you were beside

This whole time in this grey blur there you were

I forgot I could always count on her

Time to leave the others to feed on themselves

Time to leave these fiends, and it’s time to get well

This whole lengthy struggle you were right with me

Yet through the thick black smoke I couldn't see

I’ve ran so far down this scorched path

This path leading me to its den of wrath

It’s you more than anyone I don’t want to fail

But for far too long I’ve been derailed

This draining comatose routine no longer can I stand to handle

Exit this haze I’ve been hiding in to crawl to the light of your candle

Enter my core to find it barren

Now see disrepair when I step in

This routine has left me exhausted

This routine has made me depleted

Myself I’ve so badly mistreated

I must make a real change

I refuse to be defeated

I can't stay in this ailing cycle anymore

Declaring war on what harms my core

Sat in the sun and began to cry

It’s time again to really try

Felt the warmth of the sun as I cried

I forgot that you were here by my side

Adam Keith McElwain

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