I’m ready for life again
Ready to live again
Ready to do more than just sit here waiting

For a ship that won’t come in
So I begin to build another boat
While paddling to stay afloat

I’ll Get back to my castle
Even if I have to drain the moat
Even if I have to eat every word I wrote

I’d write em all again
This isn’t a show
This is what’s within

Kind like your next of kin
Yet battle hardened
Ready to slay demons to save friends

Not much I havent seen
In this this life we’re living
But I wake with new eyes each day

And accept both the pain and the gift we are given

-J. A. Shepard Hardhitpoets.com