Obstacles are placed
On our path
Not to weaken
But to strengthen
Obstacles give pause
Providing time to
Wonder do I
Really want this
But never forget
That hills exist
So that valleys
Can also exist
Where you decide
To stop is
Up to you
Obstacles are placed
On our path
Not to weaken
But to strengthen
Obstacles give pause
Providing time to
Wonder do I
Really want this
But never forget
That hills exist
So that valleys
Can also exist
Where you decide
To stop is
Up to you
Back when I
Was seventeen life
Was simpler love
Purer music better
Life was uncluttered
Because it was
Still ahead out
There around the
Next curve beyond
The next hill
And I shot
For it and
Always found it
Where I thought
That it was
Back when I
Was still seventeen
You are beautiful
Like the moon
You bathe me
In your mystery
Tiptoeing through night
Giving my room
Just enough light
To remind me
You are here
And remind me
When you’re not
I did not
I never did
I had wanted
To go somewhere
Else yet found
Myself here in
A place that
I never imagined
And unable to
Understand or even
Speak the language
So muddle through
I did knowing
That one day
I eventually would
Be at the
Place that I
Had wanted to
Be rather than
The damned place
I’d been sent
So today with
Ticket in hand
Off I go
To my someplace
And not yours
Omg we wish
That we were
It that we
Were the thing
That what we
Hap hoped for
But never gotten
As though what
We always wanted
Had to ride
Shotgun