Living the Real Life

 * When I Falter *

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Living the Real Life

What’s the real life?

It’s living the truth

None can maim the truth

None can change the truth

When you live the truth

You live the real life

And the truth is not a lie

And you do not live a lie.

Choice

 * When I Falter *

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Choice

I

Years that gave so much

and so much taken too

Roads I boldly took

Roads I refused to leave

Ignorance and pride

Lodged in cement

of convictions

II

Time of triumph

when there was no applause

Still I have been proud

Time of mind and passion locked

The only regret

It was all too soon gone

Time of the hearts

The only game played

Only for love and the other

Time of right and wrong

Says everyone, it was wrong

I refused to be wrong

Time of shadows

When I forgot to care

Leaving only tears

III

I plod on

Praying to be right

Praying to be safe

Weighed on, by

Wreaths of woe

Garlands of mirth, too

Rules of life

The only strength

was from within

IV

And so I was then

And so I am now

A choice

A decision.