Daybreak

I’m afraid of the dark

And the art

I haven’t made

The places not stayed

And the overstayed welcomes I

Know not to inhale the stratosphere keep

Both feet on the ground

And look straight ahead

But sometimes before I sleep

I close my conscience instead

And my body will shake as I

Reach for ambition and things not yet achieved

My heart starts to race as I search for reprieve you see 

I hear the clock ticking as I run out of time and life is so short that I 

know I should climb

Up the ladder keep going 'til I reach my potential but sometimes

I feel so arid that the doubts are torrential

And I hold myself up to the light like a swatch

Contrasting the pigments until I look botched

Everyone else seems to know what the hell they are doing 

the path they are on and the words they are spewing

but maybe the point isn’t to know straight away

have all the answers and reach tomorrow today you see 

the thing about life is that we're all just existing

Some people masters and some just beginning

All of us stumbling blindly ahead

for passion and promise and beauty instead

Of the hardships that come and the people that go

And the knowledge only of what we don’t know

But in this small moment confused and alone

Hopelessly hopeful of life so unknown

Is the time that we have to find our own light

Prick our fingers with ignorance until we grasp something alright

And when you find it you take it and run far away

Because only then will you look up and find 

it is day