Learning Living Loving Lasting

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You make me want to go on living.

But you always quit giving.

You make me feel like flying.

Then you show me that I'm dying.

You tell me to never look down.

Then you call me a clown.

Teach me to believe.

Do you have to make me leave?

You are the one-forever friend--

Yet soon comes the end.

Teach me and make me learn.

One day the table will turn.

Teach me what is the right way.

I don't know how to stay.

I tried. I came up a little on the short end.

I did my best. You won't bend.

No matter what- I will always fail.

You push me till I want to bail.

I cannot kill what is not mine.

You give but just a dime.

What is left? Will I ever know?

There is part of me you will not show.

I am yours to do your will.

Try as you might, I, you will never kill.

All I love lives so let it rain.

It washes away all the pain!

You gave me life does that make me alive.

Could I live without you? I must take that dive.

What is left? You never taught me--

Where life leads or who I will be.

I look and see all this creation of love.

They say it sends peace, so where is your dove?

I know now that you are my life.

I have to submit to all the strife.

I cannot give myself to you.

If I do- you win. Then what will I do?

I guess I will wake up dead.

But tonight I re-make my bed.

I will break free--

And all will see.

I am all to you. I take you away.

So here is that day.

I will not fail this time.

I give the rhyme.

I win this battle.

Are you mad? Does it make you rattle?

Please now don’t close the door.

I won this war.

For once I did not fail.