Every life must have a reason 
 So I thought the story goes 
 Just holding onto dreams now, 
 As reality steals the show 
 Wisdom such an asset, 
 But it’s gained too late in life 
 The prize of youth without control 
 Just the blade but not the knife 
 
 The challenge is here, 
 Don’t say what you fear 
 What’s over the hill do you know 
 No longer the child, once where so wild 
 Wait for the hold man to show 
 
 I wake up every morning, 
 Though I’ve slept through 
 All of these years 
 A cog that turns another, 
 Am I clockwork puppeteer? 
 The treadmill of surviving 
 I’m still spinning round and round 
 The motions I’m use to, 
 That I need no sight nor sound 
 
 The dawn of life, I’ve waited long to see 
 Now the figure of resentment, 
 This is not how I thought it would be……. 
 
 Can’t you see? 
 
 The challenge is here, 
 Don’t say what you fear 
 What’s over the hill do you know 
 No longer the child, once where so wild 
 Wait for the hold man to show 
 The truth in the eyes, still wear the disguise 
 For the wonders you may never see 
 It’s high time to fear, the final frontier 
 The face in the crowd is now me 
 
 I painted life by numbers, 
 Every color mixed so true 
 But how could I paint a rainbow, 
 When all I saw, it’s was blue 
 The picture now is drying, 
 As I wipe dust from the frame 
 A lifetime’s picture is complete 
 But the canvas is still so plain