The first day

Don’t know the future, don’t understand the past

Flailing around trying to make friendship last

Once I was laughing and believed in romance

Until you two-stepped right out of that dance

Then I was crying, my face one with the rain

You dried my tears, guiding me home again

Once I thought love was the answer to all

Until there was nothing to cushion my fall

Where do we go when all doors are closed?

Trapped in our own delusions and prose

Searching your pockets for chocolate and keys

Whispering a prayer while down on your knees

Breaking the windows into sharp, lethal shards

Wondering who has the answers, who holds the cards

If you try the doorknobs you will be shocked

The doors were shut, but none of them locked

Stand on the precipice close to the edge

Dizzy from looking down from the ledge

Considering flying, yet afraid you might fall

Hearing only an echo in response to your call

But the view is breathtaking, the light all too real

It brightens your soul changing what you feel

So you alter direction, turn toward the sun

Today is the first day your life has begun