If you thought today was it

Then open obstinate eyes,

I walk in eternal sunlight

But my eyes are shaded by doubt,

I wish reality could bend at will,

Wish time would stand still,

Just long enough for me to feel,

As every face whose hand I’d dealt

Flashed and slid past eyes

Which hold a chilling glaze,

The camera’s flash is history

And those sparkles, blinding,

Hide the smile you held,

Wishes turn to nightmares

When every hand you extend

Is taken with such care

You feel the world is one with you

And that the earth signs of love,

But your own hand

Scuffled in the mud

Flies untaken in the pouring sky,

When those you held up

Disappear with new found strength

So you stand in your sun rays,

Surrounded by the beauty you nurtured

Trapped in your own shadows greatness

Suffocating in your songs of cheer

For the world forgot your help,

Friends spurned your efforts

Denying you the strength you lent them,

Stealing it for their own pleasure,

You stand in your shadow

Surround in glory

Surrounded in love

You stand in your shadow...