face the sun

you've taken the bait

too often to count

followed the feeling

you swore to surmount

it leads you to places

you don't want to go

just at the edge

looking below

see past present

one and done

lift your head and

face the sun

you're older now than you'd like to admit

you've run out of lazy

the flame's been lit

the world doesn't know

nor does she care

that's why when you knock

nobody's there

to undo the tension

to bring on release

you ask the commotion inside you to cease

see past present

one and done

lift your head and

face the sun

see past present

one and done

lift your head and

face the sun

a fair resolution may not ever come

a piece of your life uncomfortably numb

but you must resist the powerful urge

to blow up the whole for one to emerge

see past present

one and done

lift your head and

face the sun

see past present

one and done

lift your head and

face the sun