ENTHALPY

It's good to be alive today

It's good to be alive

It's good to say just what I think

And not to have to hide

I wasted too much of my life

I wasted too much time

Trying to be good enough

For people who just lie

I have lived a life of service

As a child and a man

Given all I have to offer

As a lover and a dad

Trying to be patient

With every outstretched hand

Met the needs of wayward women

And their streams of new demands

I cannot seem to find an answer

As to how my world should be

I find lack of understanding

Is all there is for me

The harder that I try

The more perilous the road

The farther that I drive

The more I need to go

The more I crack my broken heart

The more I feel it bleed

The more I seek for answers

The more of them I need

Along the way I have found others

Others just like me

Who've tried to be so giving

They've given everything

But there is too much broken

In our congealed intensity

To make sense of one another

Like passing ships at sea

I see too - yet another type

The ones who've given up

The ones who just resolve themselves

To never have enough

They too like ships

Sail aimlessly

And lodge at random shores

But despite defeat and

Entropy

They'll always long for more

So I think it's my best interest

To cling to what I know

To keep on ever searching

To try to build a home

A home where I'm the center

Where the rest can come to me

Find creation there of order

My cosmic enthalpy