to try

If I could just live

I would just grasp the nettle

And say to my busy mind

It may be time

for me to take a step forward

even if it means

I need to leave you behind

me for a while

thoughts of doom

how powerfully you assume

that the present will be

just a repetition of the past

and you keep reminding me

how nothing ever lasts

so why even try

just to have my heart

broken again

but I think there is a time

just to let our thinking go

or grasp the positive with two hands

there may be a way

even to withstand

all the things that never work

or amount to much

if we just found a way to bear

with the disappointment

knowing that sometimes life

will not be kind

but never the less

does that mean

we should never

keep our hearts open

to hope or even try