The Battle of Life

People may look so bad because they are so sad
Never say never
if you've never been there

Life can be over in just one day
People are left behind to deal with that-April 2008

Sometimes it doesn't happen that fast though
You're just not given a chance from the start

In short time ways can part - October 3, 2008
Now try deal to with reality with any rhyme or reason

-a 40th birthday is missed - October 25, 2008
-a 22 year anniversary never comes November 1, 2008
-a son becomes a teenager-October 21, 2008
-a daughter learns to drive and turned sweet 16-June 5, 2009

Now to all you people in the house of such reality
Life is a game you may feel you can never win
even if you play your cards right
you may get dealt a bad hand

Comfort is easy to say but
Step in other shoes and take the pay
If you think there's a better way
Then go ahead and make it your day

Don't ever let talk write a check your walk can't cash
When promises are made( "'till death do we part" )
the way it can happen was not the way it was meant to be

The road to hell can be paved with good intentions
Sometimes meant to be's come true just not the ideal way
and the very last things you may say you will do or not do
may be the very last things you do or not do

Sometimes you reap what you didn'r sow
When life has fallen to pieces all around
and you're all amongst it without a clue what to do
then it's how you bring in the harvest that is left

So don't give any lines and keep words to yourself
When there's no talking a way out of pain
You may have to tow a line that is sometimes
too heavy or not strong enough or just slips away

Life as you knew can fall behind
and that yellow brick road is hard to find
and even harder to follow as you get all behind yourself

You know who is here and there and in between
but you walk alone when the life left behind
is still with you, but ahead of you
still you're just stumbling through

You'll never really know
life is too short
Life can shoot you down
worse than any metal

Take the metal that some have taken
and see if you can get back up
and not fall again and again.

Life can be like a full metal jacket
Sometimes it can just unload
more than you can possibly stand

Some may stand and some may fall
We all try to stand then somebody falls
The ones left standing haven't the strength
To pick up the fallen and again they fall.

Battles are won but they feel too small
when the war ahead seems to have no end.
All that we really have to lose in this world is our life
And when we learn to admit defeat but fight on
then we have nothing to be sorry for.

Though you may go down in flames
in cold blood, or up in smoke
you can go out with dignity
when it seemed life just shot you down
you can rise in some way shape or form.

Sometimes the only choices in life you have is to give up, let go, or lay down what you had chosen to pick up and carry. Then to have to leave or watch it slip away is the hardest thing you never want to do. Your only hope left is that all is not lost and life may give back what was lost.