what can i do?
what can we do?
we must DO
to LIVE
but it’s harder than it looks
and we hang around with crooks
or stick our noses in books
or snort our lives away
and it’s almost never worthwhile
i can still taste the bile
that rose when i thought of my life
my failure
my indecisions my bad decisions
that haunt me
when i look back
so i try not to look back
i look to the future and attack
but my past is still there
and it is heavy
it is a weight
that pulls me down
lower, it seems, every day
as i climb, the mountain is sinking
i keep trying, i keep thinking
the warning lights are blinking
my chances of success are shrinking
but i keep climbing
and the climb gets lonely sometimes
so i hope you don’t give up
like i want to give up
so we can have some company
as we climb
this sinking mountain
Original was contained in an email to Kyle C., a young friend from Jacksonville, Ark.