TOMORROW I SHINE

Today I'm broken.

My future has spoken with a loud siren call,

But will I hear?

Circumstantial bindings wrap around me, strangling,

Tying my soul down,

While life tries to rip me in two and dump the pieces.

My scars, they run deep, so deep,

And I'm tired, so tired of it all.

Of plowing through the sludge-filled trench of my life.

Sometimes the shit runs up to my neck.

Sometimes I wonder when I'll reach the other side of the ravine,

Climb out, wash the dirt off,

And be clean.

It gets hard sometimes.

But I keep my head held high.

Today I'm broken, but tomorrow,

Tomorrow I shine.

(??-1998)

(rev. 1-25-2002)