Sometimes I look back on my life
And I'm amazed I've made it this far.
I wandered about, looking for answers
Not even knowing what the true questions are.
As I have made my way in life
I have stumbled and I have crawled.
I allowed life to pass me by,
I turned a deaf ear when called.
I thought I was finding myself,
Getting to know the real me.
Yet the more I tried to be someone,
The more jaded it came to be.
I thought that I could build a wall
To keep the world away from me.
Instead I built a tomb for myself,
Even as I sought to be free.
Oh, how the mighty fall
When reality comes crashing in.
Sometimes hard lessons must be learned
Every now and then.
I found myself alone
When fame was what I sought.
I learned that it is true
That happiness can't be bought.
I had to fall on my face
To learn to get back up again.
I discovered being untrue to yourself
Is really the greatest sin.
I found strength in my weakness.
From my darkness came the light.
I fell before it humbled,
I gave up my futile fight.
I let go of all my sorrows
That I held so long within.
The peace that whispered to me,
I still hear now as then.
I faced myself for who I was,
Not whatI pretended to be.
I stripped away the material stuff
To see what was left of me.
I took a long, hard look
At the mistakes I made in the past.
I learned from them, I accepted them,
Then let them go at last.
I know I am by no means perfect.
It is only human to err.
But I will move forward and never look back.
I will be true to myself,
This I swear.

... Moone

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