Morning breaks like rust on steel
Another day the dark won’t heal
Sleep just stitches tired bones
Then sends me back to fight alone
Coffee cold beside the sink
Like promises I’m scared to think
Hope’s a match in shaking hands
Trying to light what doubt demands
My kids are laughing through the wall
And faith and failure start to brawl
They’re only fifteen steps away
But it feels like miles of stone
Like I’m buried in a tunnel
Swinging blind to find my home
I say hello, I say goodnight
Like a ghost that fades too soon
Trying to build them brighter days
While I wrestle with the gloom
Hope keeps whispering through the dust
While doubt keeps dragging at my bones
The room goes dark when the noise dies down
Like a chapel with no flame
All this shouting just to prove
I deserve to say my name
Dreams hang heavy on the air
Like thunder waiting to break
Every step feels like a prayer
That the ground won’t start to shake
Some nights the silence feels alive
Like the dark has learned my name
They’re only fifteen steps away
But it feels like oceans wide
Like I’m shouting through the dirt
While the light keeps switching sides
I’m so tired of climbing hills
With the sky strapped to my chest
Trying to build them better roads
While the earth denies me rest
Still I’m swinging in the dark below
Where doubt and hope collide
Somewhere in the cracks of night
A stubborn spark survives
A voice that says the fight is worth
The breaking of my pride
And when their laughter hits the wall
It sounds like distant light
They’re only fifteen steps away
And they’re everything I know
Every mile I crawl through dark
Is a seed I’m trying to sow
Yeah I’m tired but I won’t fade
Even when belief feels thin
Cause somewhere past this endless night
The light will break back in
And when that morning splits the dark
And the tunnel breathes again
I’ll walk those fifteen steps
And bring the light within.
HarmonicWorld901
