Learning To Cope, Part 1

Filled with fear and filled with stress

Mirror in your eyes reflect loneliness

Within your soul resonates emptiness

Trying to remember what’s happiness

Facing and befriending our demons

Which have all grown into a legion

Constantly changing with the seasons

Spent seeking out some sort of reason

Drifting down this gradual slope

I had just caught a brief glimpse of hope

Learning to live or learning to cope

Descending down this rushing slope

I had just missed a brief glimpse of hope

Am I dying to live or trying to cope?

Love and trust waxes and wanes

Counting our loses and our gains

As bitterness is all that remains

Attempt breaking animosity’s chains

Lack of esteem and lack of respect

Although what else could one expect?

Waiting for the unknown to take effect

Quietly anticipating the disconnect

Accelerating down this continuous slope

We had just caught a brief glimpse of hope

Learning to live or learning to cope

Falling down this hastening slope

We had just missed a brief glimpse of hope

Are we dying to live or trying to cope?

You’ve lost who you are and what you want

Lives lived together yet living apart

We’ve lost who we are and what we want

Lives lived together yet living apart

“Learning To Cope, Part 1” by Mickey