We were here...
When everything gave up on us, and our only friend was loss;
Shame fleshed our faces cos we'd tried so many times...
We'd failed so many times.
We were fragments of a broken cloud
Cascading from the sky in gloomy droplets
Crashing into the earth,
Hitting our lowest point...
But we were still here,
Holding on in the quagmire,
Searching for strength,
Eager to rise again.
When the sun got tired of shining on us,
Depression trapped us in these dark shells...
The earth got nettled by our feet
And they said we're not worthy to tread the sands of time,
But we were still here in the dark...
Searching for stars...
Searching for signs in the skies...
When even the skies refused to give us a sign,
And it were as though sanity had tunneled off our skulls,
Our lips ran short of words,
The words that remain
Were too heavy for our voice to bear.
All we could do was stare at the vast dark skies
As though our thoughts were written on them.
But we never left.
We were still here,
Waiting for our moment. Our time. Our dawn.
They said our time will never come,
That we've lost touch with our dreams
(Indeed we felt it slip from our finger tips),
That hope has forgotten the route to our hearts...
So I wonder what's been keeping us here.
Why we're still fighting.
Losing...
Fighting...
Rising...
Falling...
Something tells me though, that a new sunrise is on the way
And when it comes,
We shall rise with it.
When our time finally comes,
we shall soar on wings that bemuse the eagles,
Shining like diamonds in the sky,
Teaching eagles how to fly...
When those who looked down on us begin to look up to us
And our necks get weary of all the medals they gather
And our eyes read our names Spelt in gold, in the hall of fame...
When those who left us behind
Trace our foot prints
To find a path to greatness...
When the sands of time smile at the feel of our feet and worship our legacy
And history loves the sound of our name...
We will still be here,
Telling tales of how it all began.