Common Ground

Most of us struggle all our lives to find peace. We pray day in and day out, yet at times it does not feel we are making progress. The pain becomes a part of you, and it feels as if you cant escape it. There are days you being to feel as if the pain is gone and you can finally move on, yet before you know it the pain has crept right back into your bed. To be honest with you I don’t know how to fight it or how to get rid of it. Everyone would tell you the easy answer which is to pray about it, but what if you have? Yet your still living this up and down life so to speak where you cant seem to find that common ground. That ground where you could finally feel as if you don’t have to feel the weight of the world on your back. Is that common ground death??

Trying to get it together,

Because I know this pain cant last forever.

Sometimes I feel God gets tired of hearing me cry,

I hope he understands that I’m barley getting by.

Staying on the right path trying to become a better man,

Yet sometimes I slip and I need him to lend me a hand.

I cant lie I feel lonely out here without my father,

I’m cold and uncomfortable without my mother.

Sometimes I question the love around me,

Is it real or is there something I cant see.

I’m making it now on my own,

Yet I cant help but think that when I’m done I will die alone.

The world throws its stones my way,

Sometimes I just wish God could take me where I lay.

The pain comes and goes and I’m up and down,

Everyday underneath this smile there is a painful frown.

I have become so numb that my heart beats slower,

My motivation to fight gets lower and lower.

If I could just get to common ground,

Where the wind blows and the trees sing yet without a sound.

My map to peace was wrong and now I am lost,

To be found...is a hell of a cost.