You find yourself
when you stop chasing someone else

Punctuated
With devastation
I feel degraded
By expectation
And deflated
With every respiration

Tell me I'm wrong,
and you're probably right.
Tell me I've made a mistake,
and you're probably not mistaking.
Tell me my judgment is bad,
and your judgment is probably good.
Tell me it could be better,
and it probably couldn't be worse.
You can tell me I'm worthless,
but I'll never be worth less than priceless.

live every day as if it is your last
for the now will soon be the past
and you don't want to regret
these days you can't forget
for when it has become "back then"
you won't be able to change them
but in the moment, you know how
and you can change the now

There’s nothing I’d rather do
Than sit and speak with you
♥️

It seems that I am always
working hard,
and it is always
hardly working.

I've reached my goal
and calmed my soul
proving to myself that my success was not fake
by surpassing it on the next take

Enjoy the time you have, cause you're not promised any more
And I know that sometimes it can be hard to ignore

But you can never have it all
So just go 'head and have a ball

While you can

Some live a broken fate
that this broken world precipitates
Some live a perfect illusion
their grasp on reality loosened

Do you even miss me?
Not as far as I can see

Was that worth all my time?
And then I remember... this could save lives.

May the words of the Lord
be the voice of our hearts

It's time to go
but my aching body is saying no
is my own mind friend or foe

On paper,
nowhere to go but down

In real life,
nowhere to go but up

I like my real chances better
have somewhere to go over perfection, I'd rather

Nothing bad happens on its own,
history has shown

the typical me
isn't the one you typically see

not many friends,
but a great family
can't see the end,
but know it's coming gradually
for myself, don't have to fend
cause the ruler of the universe has me
don't have any perfection to spend,
so it's good that there's no fee
sometimes my will tries to bend,
but then I remember where I'll be spending eternity

Exude confidence
and they will perceive experience in you
Keep your head held high
and they will look up to you
Genuinely smile
and they will see beauty in you
Believe in yourself
and they will believe in you, too

You're not faking it, though
You're making it so

I feel hackneyed, overplayed, and unoriginal;
I've become jaded, bored, and cynical.