What shall be my fate in this short life?

Do I continue to bring comfort to those around me,

while my heart and soul seem to be dying day by day?

I’m trapped in this world of confusion

Fighting to stay far away from the rat race.

But this fighting has put my essence in such a strange place.

A land of reality where pain and pleasure are one in the same.

For how does one know what pleases if he doesn’t know what displeases.

I want to shout, scream, cry, laugh but all at the same time.

So I do none and I continue to die.

I think love can be the answer.

But how do I? Who do I? When do I?

When those I have looked to in the past nearly destroyed me,

stripped me of so many of my dreams and beliefs.

Program me to act as the silent cornerstone

Never taking time to ask if I was weary

Do you now need support from those who you have supported all this time?

But such questions are never asked.

It is up to me and only me, as if has always been.

I shall set my heart and soul free!

I shall raise from the ashes as the Phoenix!

And soar to great heights

To proclaim these words: “This World Is Mines!”