How do you change the things your mind perceives

When the past and the pain are all your memory receives?  

How do you move on from the foundation of your past

When the people all around you want you sheltered in a cast?

How do you set free the nightmare of your dreams

When you can’t tell the difference between the smiles and the screams?

 

Can you smell the fear clinging to my skin?

Can you taste the doubt drowning my mind?

Can you see the nerves shaking my body?

Can you hear the pain breaking my heart?

Can you feel the hope lingering in my eyes?

 

How can you help me move on from this mess

When I’ve spent my whole left sheltered from the rest?

How can you see what’s good and what’s bad

When the world lives in darkness, drowning the mad?

How can you tell me what decisions to make

When nobody knows how much I can take?

 

All I want to feel is the sun in my eyes.

All I want to hear is the pounding of my heart.

All I want to taste is the knowledge of my mind.

All I want to smell is the lavender on my skin.

 

All my life I’ve heard wanting is a sin

but that wasn’t a place where my opinion came in

I needed to hear the words and the love

But instead I’m still here searching for a dove

 

I’m done with waiting for my life to begin

Suppressing my strength and my need to win

The lock on my box is no longer secure

The me I’ve kept hidden is ready for you to hear