Roads, Souls and Fire

You and I. We fight the same battle even though they’re different.
See, if I walked in your shoes I’d still be walking the same distance.
You think you are alone in fighting with your mind, and well
We all are alone until that point in where we find, what time will tell.
Wait. For what? Wait for answers. When we all go out looking
That’s when we become our own cancers. Because the answer, lies within.
But as we go about our lives as tiny dancers we don’t acknowledge our own sin.
Here we are putting our lives out there for everyone to see.
Posting our daily duties like the world has paid a subscription to read.
But deep within us we each hold our secrets,
And our insides are on fire while fighting our own battles.
But if I were to honestly believe you didn’t have problems,
I wouldn’t see you on this road, you’d be on the one less traveled.
I’ve been on that road once and I intend to go back
This road we’re on now is paved with its tar fresh and black.
Its yellow lines are deceiving and the white ones hold you to it
But if all this noise stopped we could see right through it.
It’s not real. This road is chaos and confusion. We can’t figure out why we’re all hurting but we love it.
Life on this road is just an illusion. While our dreams sit in reality waiting for us to rise above it.
Every day we put those black lines around our eyes and dress up our bodies hoping to cover lies
But every day becomes another day we didn’t try. This car can’t run forever, soon it will die.
As our engine sputters and runs on its last fumes we will wonder
Was it really worth driving through the storm just to hear the thunder?
That path that’s narrow the one we all know is there, well, it’s covered with leaves
There are vines that stretch across it and grass grows tall like the trees.
But there’s peace there on that road, a peace that’s all been planted in us like a seed
And the day we step foot on its path we can let the sunlight in to dry up the weeds
Our souls are like caves, see; we keep them dark and hidden, only the light from outside gets in
But no. What if we let The Light in, what would he find in our shadowy corners?
Cobwebs and dust he would see, and he would peel off the guilt, shame, and fear around its borders.
That light is in all of us just waiting to be ignited, and once in flame we will still have to fight it
Just because a fire glows within doesn’t mean the other side won’t tempt you with sin
And he does. The more your fire grows the more often he comes. Sometimes evil will win.
That’s the challenge though. That’s how we really grow, and in doing so, that’s when we’ve made it,
To that narrow winding road, the one full of peace, simplicity and realness, don’t tell me you don’t crave it.