i can't shake this feeling
Tamyka Bell
and i'm not used to it
i feel weak and unsteady
and i don't like it
i feel like words are slipping
off the edge of my page
and i can't catch them
and i can't put them back
i can see into the future
i can see it in the distance
and the bright lights hurt my eyes
and the fighting makes my head hurt
but my spirit soars
and i know i can stay this way
forever more
and yet when i turn back
and i look at me now
i wonder how i could ever get there
there is no path from where i am now
to where i will be then
and as the lightning strikes again
i wonder why i never noticed
that it was a storm
i thought it was just drizzle
and so has my time come?
nay, i have been teased once more
and are these the tests and trials
that she spoke of?
nay, for they wound me not
and if i could change all this, would i?
yes i would be that girl on the stage
with the power
and no one would shun me
and i would win
but for now i am back in the dark place
the world where my songs itch and burn
and i can't keep them in
and i can't draw them out
they just hide there
and they itch and burn
i am angry and i am frustrated
i know i can fight and i know i can win
but right now i just want to sleep
and dream
and never wake up
so if i should wake in the morning
and i don't seem happy to see you
believe me, it's not you
it's the world.
the same cold world
it has always been.
03 June, 2003
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