Today is the time for me to go

Driving down the road, windows wound right down and the stereo blaring. Arms hanging over window edge; waving in excitement at the freedom experienced as the Summer time glow begins. Untrained voices singing full-tilt as laughter and absurdity over spills- pallid skin bravely bares self to the sun as the possibility of infinite mischief takes hold.

Today is the time for me to go, to be on my own way.
To leap and bound along this heavy path. With shoulders aching, bearing a weight of pressure and distrust...an independence to be made.

Staring in the mirror and I look a little clearer,....
I see something that I thought would be fairer.....
A feeling of excitement bubbling through the error,....
I know,....
I’m caught.....
.. ..
And as I stand in disbelief at what I’m seeing, ....
An unfamiliar form of a confident being,....
I think of how far I’ve come in this small clearing....
And know,....
I’m caught.....
.. ..
Cause early in the morning when I used to wake up,....
I’d prize myself from my pillow, smeared in tear-stained makeup....
And I’d take my pill and dance around and try to shake up....
A feeling of lost cause.....