The Travails Of Life


Sailing down life's lonely stream

All alone in this crazy dream

Watching as life drifted by

Hearing the winds mournful sigh

Blowing into my life and out again

Seeing that I'm always in pain


Sad soft whispers are all I hear

In this empty world full of fear

Searching for the sun and a bit of peace

To end this misery and give some release

To bathe in it's warmth and see it shine

Bring light into this dark life of mine


I found it twice but it didn't stay

Somehow the sunshine went astray

Then all that was left was the stain

And the clouds that brought the rain

Reminding me of all the tears I've cried

Raining in torrents for sun that died


Coming so fast a new ocean they made

Hurt, pain, and emotions left to jade

Chained into this boat of loneliness I sail

Through wind, rain, snow, and hail

Looking for the sun, praying for reason

So once again may come the sun's season



To burn away the dark clouds and mist

Feeling the enchantment of being lovingly kissed

Wrapped in the suns warm affection

Coming once again in my lonely direction

It's a chance I must take for a reason to live

To be enveloped in the warmth love can give


Sinew's burn spurring the will to fight

To end the rain until and bring on the sunlight

To escape a life as cold as any winter

And remove this loneliness splinter

To find what's right in the way I feel

To have and to hold what's true and real