Rest

We think and we learn,

We bend and we break,

We fix minds over and over this mistake.

Things we've done before

And things you can't ignore,

Even buried six feet under alive under growth oh forest floor.

Dying replaces sleeping,

Sowing lessons without reaping,

Write it out for safekeeping?

Feelings that should be speaking.

Beg the wind to return lost words,

And take us with the birds,

They know not this jealousy to obsession so absurd.

A year's night for each slip,

Searching for each powdery chip,

Read the letters in your eyes, taste the difference on your lips.

Bitter taste of a lie,

Cacophony of goodbye,

Wash sins away with the tears that we cry.

How after to live?

What more should I give?

Scarlet loops stringing up each ragged breath to relive.

Learn to forgive worst to best,

See each trial as opportune test,

To forgive and do right then you too may rest.

You learned and sowed.

And yes you did grow.

You deserve to reap also the good from the things you now know.

You don't still have to pay,

The better parts can stay.

Grow from the past and never forsake today.