Stop – pause in this moment
You can let reality be real
Acknowledge your feelings
Know truth apart from how you feel
Breathe – release the tension
You can stop holding on so hard
Relax into safety
Give room to heal the bruised and scarred
Hear – tune into the present
You can listen for what is true
Let thoughts and feelings fade
Understand life from this new view
Care – hold onto your world
You can love yourself always
Connect, bond to others
Live where good can fill the days
Perfect gifts from above
Good and freely given love
Open hearts, we receive
Through the faith that we believe
Evil acts, greedy hands
All throughout the world stands
We are truth, we are light
Giving hope, goodness, and right
Cars circling round and round
For the best space to be found
Counting minutes once they park
Out come faces pale and dark
Hurry with a bag of books
Giving others sideways looks
Stoic buildings staring on
Until every student’s gone
Into the doors to find pale rooms
Where they’ll sit through boring dooms
To learn or just watch a show
Of lecturers who think they know
The answers but don’t have a clue
Of what real teachers would do
But these students won’t give in
Until their new knowledge they win
Though they are battered, worn, and pale
They’re determined to prevail
The water, dark from midnight sleep
Now mirrors lines of radiant glow
From morning clouds of brilliant gold
That with the rising sun’s rays flow
While jeweled rocks and lapping waves
Clad in magnificent attire
The ever-widening path of glass
On which advances the ball of fire
I am fighting
Fighting a war I didn’t begin
Fighting a battle from within
Fighting and determined to win
I was a prisoner
A prisoner of a troubled past
A prisoner of the role I was cast
A prisoner but not the last
I am fighting
Fighting to escape tyranny
Fighting for who I was meant to be
Fighting hard for victory
I will be free
Free to love without demand
Free to give a helping hand
Free to take my own true stand
My thoughts are such a jumble
They rattle, spin and tumble
The words I thought I said
Mean something else instead
The feelings that I’m feeling
Are trapped by a glass ceiling
And when I try to write
The words I want take flight
My life is so unknown right now
We will get through, I’m not sure how
My plans rock back and forth each day
I know that there will be a way
I don’t have to know it all
Or get it right on every call
I’m not alone out in this stream
And I know I can trust our team
