The morning light peers into the room

My eyes open as those thoughts begin to loom

My mind wanders from place to place

Struggling to compensate

For lost time, and lost dreams

For distancing myself from the world I see

For not excepting the reality

No more obsession of the truth

A Token of what I longed to know

I can no longer walk around with my broken heart,

using it like a veteran’s discount.

I can’t hide inside from

The changing winds

My everything, my light

Fading dim

Give me a moment to breath

In the new air that I now live free