Poems

Is the new path any more true?

Walking back down
That same old street again
Tried so hard to avoid it
But still that route I can't change

Lessons still left unlearnt
Struggling to travel paths anew
Find it too hard to change
Is there something else, anything new I can do?

Not at all surprised by my weaknesses
My lack of strength, of resolve
Each time I say 'Never again'
Just more lies into my soul

The setting is still constant
The cast is still unchanged
All still trying to get to C
But only get from A to B, and there we all remain

Though there's so many new roads
Out there to be explored
Yet these invisible strings drag me back
Constantly searching for something better, something more

Is it decided in our life lines
All set out before our birth
Or do we just give up and not take the chance
Too scared of what we might learn

I often wonder if it's just me
Or if we are all too frightened of change
Struggling to keep our inner strength
That could set us on the right way

Is it possible to find the power from within?
To help you make the changes
Enable us to take the chances
That I hope and pray are waiting out there

Are we fearful that the grass isn't greener?
That it will end up worse than it is now
So we settle for what we have at the moment
Paranoid of what the future holds

So still I sit here and wonder
Wishing that soon the answers will all unfold
Give to us what it is that we need
To let us experience this great big world

There is still far too much out there
To sit in this bubble each and every day
Embrace the sights and sounds that will teach us
Give us new experiences and memories to hold

I wonder if I can do the hard part
Stand up and walk a new and different way
Shrug the past off my shoulders, stop it weighing me down
Stop letting the past block my progression each and every time

I hope I will be brave enough one day
Not later though, I day I hope is soon
The familiarity just grows more tiring
The boredom keeps hitting me too soon

But now, I still just sit right here
No braver and to my soul still untrue
Maybe one day the courage will come to me
Til then I will just keep seeing it through