Unknown to me

“I have a dream, A song to sing, To help me cope, with anything. If you see the wonder of a fairytale, you can take the future, even if you fail. I believe in angels, something good in everything I see. I cross the stream, I have a dream.”

One of my favorite songs from childhood – always makes me smile. Today, it makes me wonder what the writer of that song must have been experiencing to feel a desperate need to express a hope for optimism. To give him/her that inspiration and motivation to move on, to let go of things in the hope that better would be around the corner – to need to know that if the distance was covered, that was a step towards a better world.

For a long time I have been writing – and it’s cathartic for me. Therefore, I was stumped with myself when I no longer could. I think I was afraid of facing what would flow from me if I allowed myself to write. But I also knew somewhere, some day I would have to, in order for me to cross the stream - today is that day.

I held on tight to a dream
Unknown to me its strength
I help on tight to a hope
Unknown to me the end

A need to know the truth
An urge to make it true
A call to take a step
Unknown to me it was back

A look around of me
Somehow clearly I see
Unknown to me a life
Unknown to me the truth

A decision to move ahead
Unknown to me the hope
A decision to take a step
To forgive myself the road

Unknown to me a smile
A surprise upon my eyes
Unknown to me freedom
A new beginning became known.

Hum of the day
Life is full of surprises. It’s the most pleasant when you surprise yourself.