When your heart's all tangled and your life's in shambles, yet you smile through the chaos and you dare all the gambles. When you have no direction and you're just rolling down the road, when you're living a life you're sure you can't afford, but you pull up your socks and lace up your shoes, and you live the lie cause it's the only truth...
When you're sitting in a room where everything's ablaze, and you're only being saved by the drench of your tears. When you become so numb that you no longer feel the lashes of your peers, and you pay no attention to your childish fears, you just sit and smile through the insomnia and the mental strains...
When your happiness is placed in someone's else's palms, and they squeeze it tighter while staring through your soul, with no remorse, heart freezing cold, when they look you in the eyes and tell you they love you, then pierce you through the heart and leave you lying on the floor, yet you never give up and go on to love some more...
When you're not sure if you're a genius or you're going insane, when you're not sure if you're less, or a cut above the rest, if you're truly happy or you're faking happiness, but nothing troubles you and everything does at the same damn time, so you go to sleep and leave it all behind, for you think that's your getaway, but even sleeping is a mess, for you only have nightmares, seldom happiness...
When you face the world regardless, and you smile the hardest, and your heart isn't hardened, and you ask for no pardon, and you pick your heart up and you try to untangle, and though it's the hardest you don't tie it around your neck and strangle, you just untangle and let it dangle. And though you've had more than you can handle, you let the blade go and you take the handle, for life is what you make it, even if you fake it, and everyday is a challenge, you just can't shake it, so you take it by the hand and firmly shake it, in agreeance to try until you make it, that's when you'd have control, of the tangle, and grab the hands of your troubles, and enjoy the tango.
By Paul B. Peddie
April 16, 2015.
