Hold on to Tomorrow

all our lives,

we wait for better days,

sitting at kitchen tables

in the middle of the night,

listening to the voices

speaking inside our silent heads,

waiting for a morning sunrise

just over the horizon;

I have seen your darkness,

I have felt your fear,

I have known your emptiness,

I have been where you are;

I look into the night,

I run from the past,

I search for the answers,

I hear the distant call,

forever trapped

by man-made ideas

and thoughts,

continually caught

within self-made visions

and illusions;

brave new paths lie ahead,

reach for the shining light,

hold on to tomorrow,

don’t give up the fight;

the prize awaits,

the fog does slowly fade,

nighttime darkness crawls away,

dreams no longer hide,

somewhere just past midnight,

detour signs appear,

as a different road beckons,

a new way revealed,

a road which never ends,

a road to call our own,

a road stretching into the future,

a road that takes us home,

where we can lay our

tired, battered heads;

hold on to tomorrow,

don’t give up the fight.

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