Thalidomide - Transience

As I leave this world

As I pass this torch to you

Please forgive me

Please embrace what’s left behind

If I had the time to tell you you’ll be alright

I would

If I had the time to believe we’ll be alright

I would

Please forgive me

Please forgive me one more time

I’m left here to wonder

What it all would have been like

If I had the time to tell you you’ll be alright

I would

If I had the time to reflect on this you know

I would

How I wonder how this life would have played out

If it wasn’t for the stake in my side

Or choices filled with regret

If I had the time to tell you you’ll be alright

I would

If I had the time to believe you’ll be alright

I would

And if I had the time to reflect on this you know

I would

And if I had the time to forgive my bad decisions

I would

Like a bird with a broken wing I lay here

Left behind

Buried but still alive

So much anger

So much frustration

How can this be fair?

Still so much more life to live

I breathe this out

This note to you

A last goodbye

Breathe and ascend

Like a feather in the wind

Up she goes in the light of day

Up she goes forever