Trying to find my voice and resist the urge to slip into someone else's

I stared as if through a window at the laundry being set to dry; silk sheets billowing like sails meant to carry us, but never making it off the clothesline. Stuck, like  precious stones in the rocks of an abandoned mine. And for all my talk--I've been shouting at these stones to take a walk, "Break free! Break free!" But they won't listen to a word I say. I guess that's the nature of a stone, anyway. But if it never leaves the cave, it can never know how bright it was meant to shine.

Did you see me as I was passing by? Did you notice that strange look in my eyes, like a man who's been fighting for his life, his whole life, and nothing but his life? It's not a good look, but it's mine, and I wear it with as much pride as I can muster. One day I hope to look back and see a person I barely recognize. I hope that I'll be kind, and good, and loving. I hope that I'll have a family of my own, instead of latching onto everyone else's. It's not that they mind. In fact, most of them like me pretty well. It just isn't mine. When it comes down to it, I will always be a second priority. And that's as it should be. It's just hard when that's all you know. You know?

Like Shooting Stars

It starts with the one thing I know how to do
Indulging myself with the torture of thinking of you
And all I know is that this could be
The thing that takes you away from me

For all I know I won't be here that long
Get out of this town like they say in the song
But all that I'm hoping is that it's not true
The one things that takes me away from you

And all we know is who we are
And all that we wish for like shooting stars
Reminds me of all the trails that brought us here
Then they burned up in the atmosphere

I will

I will never give up
Nothing I could do would ever be enough
To make me think that I'm just too late
I will always be the first one through the gate

If it takes all my life to find you
I will find you just the same
And if I ever start to despair
I will cling to the hope inside

No matter the price
I will find a way to survive

I will find a way to survive