"Breathing in Smoke" Written August 8, 2011

You breathe in the smoke,

Caused by your destruction.

But from the ashes comes,

A new creation.

There's hope in the tiniest of places,

Faith in strangers' faces.

Blood still runs through your veins,

You can still start again.

Leave your past behind,

Dont let it hold you down.

Theres a whole new world to find,

So it's time for you to break out.

Theres a world outside this meadow,

That I've never seen before.

I think I found the handle,

To open the door.

Set me free,

Find a way to release the past,

Spread my wings,

And let the good times last. 

"Shackles" Written August 6, 2011

Fly,

To the moon,

Just to try to get away from you,

Cause I dont want you to hurt me again.

Cause the pain,

Inside,

Was eating me alive,

And I'm under your spell again.

When I,

Get the chance,

I'm going to try to break the chains,

That make me stay in love with you.

I will break the shackles,

Set myself free,

I will be the person,

I know I can be.

I will break the shackles,

To get away from you,

I will break the shackles,

That keep the love I cant undo.

"The Past" Written June 2, 2011

Down the darkened valley,   

I wanted to disappear. 

My heart was getting heavy,

From soaking up all the tears. 

I was getting sick of, 

Running into every wall.

Just getting sick of,  

Everyone watching me fall.

That was my world of lies,

When I was alone at night.

But that’s all in the past,

And it didn’t last.

Am I getting stronger,

As the days grow longer? 

Or am I still in the past,

That I thought wouldn’t last?

Now I sit here,

Still all alone, 

Surrounded by a quiet,

That chills me to the bone.

Should I be scared,

Should I even care?

That was my world of lies,

But I’m still alone at night.

Thought it was in the past,

Thought it didn’t last.

Am I getting stronger,

As the days grow longer?

Or am I still in the past,

That I thought wouldn’t last?

I don’t want to go back down.

Into that toxic wasteland,

I’m about to drown,

 I’m extending my hand.

Drowning in my world of lies,

And I’m alone tonight,

I’m falling back into my past,

That I thought didn’t last.

 I thought I was getting stronger,

But the days are getting harder,

 ‘Cause all I’m stuck in the past,

That never should have been.

"I'm Here" Written May 21, 2011

Hope is what keeps me alive,

Friendship is what makes my days so bright,

Moral is what lets me know what's wrong from right,

And humanity helps me win the fight.

We're only human,

Wanting to control the world,

When so much is out of our reach,

When will we ever learn?

When we stand strong,

Hand in hand,

Arm around arm,

There's nothing we cant overcome.

I'll watch you fall in front of the crowd,

Step up with an arm reached out,

I promise to you I'll always be there,

I promise to you I'm here.

"Going To Be Free" Written March 14, 2011

Saw my life through a broken window,

Broken glass shattering the things I love,

Watched them all walk out the door,

To never see them again.

The world was spinning around me,

I stayed still watching all the movement,

Feeling left out,invisible, worthless,

Until I figured it out.

It doesn't matter what the other people see in me,

It doesn't matter just as long as I can be me,

Someday I'm going to spread my wings,

Someday I'm going to be free.

The days go by faster than I can turn the page,

To this story I'm living through,

Will I make it to the end?

Or will i get bored and walk off?

Will I shine in my God's glory?

Will I love like never before?

Will I be able to smile in the darkness?

Will I be able to feel?

It doesnt matter what the other people see in me,

It doesn't matter just as long as I can be me,

Someday I'm going to spread my wings,

Someday I'm going to be free.

You can knock me down all you want,

But I wont ever stay down,

My life's been screwed up,

Time to turn that around.

It doesnt matter what you see in me,

It doesnt matter cuz you cant control me,

Someday I'm going to spread my wings,

Someday I'm going to be free

"A Small Town Christmas Story" Written December 25, 2010

One sweet Christmas,

A girl got on her knees and prayed,

She gave her heart to Jesus,

Hoping it wasn't too late.

Her father had cancer,

Her mother wasn't home,

She stayed with her sister,

So she wasn't alone.

Her older sister rocked the girl on her lap, 

As the night hours grew long,

Many minutes passed,

As she waited for her parents to come home.

The Christmas tree was glowing with the lights wrapped around it,

The few presents they had wrapped lay underneath,

They tried to keep the Christmas Spirit,

As the snow outside fell in sheets.

The snow fell like frozen tears of an angel,

As they fell to the ground,

She watched it as it fell,

As the warmth of the fire spread around.

Her sister  told her the story of Christmas,

The night Christ was born,

How Jesus died for us,

And that he was the one she adored.

That night, her mother walked in with the problems of her day carried on her shoulders,

Saw her daughters on there knees in front of the tree,

The young one praying for daddy, the other for the soldiers,

And she too got on her knees.

The mother left her worries with her bags next to the door that night,

The older sister rocked the girl to sleep,

She knew everything would be alright, 

"Cause Jesus died for me."

"What Has This World Come To?" Written July 22, 2010

Everybody c'mon and listen to me
Put down the magazine,
Shut down the laptop,
Take the ear buds out.

What,what has this world come to?
As if we have nothing else to do.
We waste our lives online or on the phone.
If you dont, are you truly alone?

So easy to lose our connections now,
What do we do when the power goes out?
Why must we waste our lives with these things?
Why has the world become so lazy?

What, what has this world come to?
As if we have nothing else to do.
We waste our lives online or on the phone,
If you dont, are you truly alone?

How long has it been?
Since you sent a real letter to a friend?
Or do you use email,
and things like "lol"

Oh now there's a world out there.
but instead we stare,
at a TV screen,
See what I mean?

What, what has this world come to?
As if we have nothing else to do?
We waste our lives online or on the phone,
If you dont, are you truly alone?

Find something else to do!!!
Oh, what has this world come to?