Monday, July 2, 2018

A Mother's Secrets

you're going through life 
you don't know what you're missing 
but you think you're OK 
(cause that stuff ain't real anyway)

then your eyes get opened get opened real good 
you know what love feels like...it's better than good

you don't know what you're doing
don't know the way 
learn a lot of rules while you're finding your way
and you pray and you pray
do everything they say
to do...believing that it's true
teaching what you know
trying to show
them the way

then one day
your kids start to stray
soon running away
from this love that you've found...
you can't understand how so much pain can stay 
around
and injure your heart
tearing you apart 
when you've been trying
so hard
to do it all the right way

now you're feeling ashamed 
you weren't right after all 
and of course it's your fault 
and you just hit a wall of confusion and doubt 
so you back away from it all

but something inside of you knows that it's real
something bigger than you 
and all of your trying 
to get something right 

so you cry out loud 
and get real in your gut 
and you scream for help to get out of this rut 
cause you feel like you're dying

then it happens and love breaks through 
(it happened to me it can happen to you)
suddenly you know something more than before
you know that you know that you know that there's more

still hurting inside because everything's broken
with all of your mess-ups 
and wrong words spoken
you wonder if anything ever was real 
and you try not to feel 
and you're not gonna kneel
and you're not gonna pray
anymore because well what good does it do
he's just gonna do 
what he wants to do
...anyway

so you go back to living 
but now that you know 
that you know what was missing 
you can't get away from this knowing inside
that love is alive 
you just wanna say
there's a much better way
of living
today

out of the blue hope rises back up 
and you dare to believe 
that the thing you messed up 
he will retrieve
 
and those whom you love so much that it hurts 
will some day wake up to the love that you've found

and you hope deep inside that you'll still be 
around...

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