A NEW DAWN

A new dawn is breaking

The light of a new day

Wakes me from a dream

In this dawn a new way

Wakes me to the truth

Wasn't facing my mortality

Hiding love in youthful eyes

Didn't want to look back at me

But now this new dawn is breaking

Inside it hides an inner peace

Brings this man up to the surface

Doesn't have to be anything

But what he is meant to be

Look out toward the sun

Rays of hope shine down on me

This new dawn has come

And I'm ready to be

One

Returning to my path

Of What I should have been

No more chasing after errant needs

Or the random desires of errant

Women

Wasted so much of my time

Trying to be good enough for "you"

That I lost myself for years and years

Though there was no reason to

I saw my own reflection

In a dawn that seeks to please me

In a light that's shining down

Only seeking to release me

In this Dawn I see such tasks

all the walls we could knock down

All the things that I could build

A new life in this new town

In the light of this new day

Feels like I'm born again

No more codependency

No more codependent man

I just get to settle in

Flashing poet builds his drums

Open myself up to a life

That's just begun at 41