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The Great Escape





One day I was looking upon myself

Many years of smiles and tears had left me tired of singing,

Tired of cryin’ tired of tryin, I watched myself dying, moment to moment

Time had passed and the laughter that had filled my glass

Had become indigenous, glowing only to one’s self



Where was the drug that would become me?

Searching the others lips and eyes for their heart

Throwing myself into them, awaiting my soul to boomerang back to me

Finding I had been stood up,

I echoed the voices in my head to rest, ate up all the gray



Then somewhere in time it crossed my mind that I had lost me

I reconciled with my inner mad man, spit me out, made a plan

And there in the great depths of my hurt, I vowed my oath to pain

Would somehow have to escape me, though I ran the shadows followed

Sometimes questioning my own existence, I looked for the great escape



God heard my heart, tore through the walls I’d built

He had sent spitting images of me,

Showed me to myself, waltzed with me upon the ledge

Asking me , did I really need to jump?

I had yet another blessing

While looking for the Great Escape

I had found through another's eye’s…..me!





6/19/09