Open Your Eyes

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Open Your Eyes

By Ryan Johnston

Outside the front door

The gravel path is soaking up

The last of this season's warmth

I'm alive, inside these walls

And this place, is where I live

So many days have been,

So many nights will come,

Will there be something left of me?

Will you still be there for me?

Today, I think you will be

But I think we both know

That it never falls quite the same

Maybe this time I'll go without

Because if I see anymore changes 

Or lose one more truth right now,

Then I think I might walk away 

And miss the ending

Burning paper days 

Dragging heavy hearts

Spinning riddles and webs

The answers, stuck inside my head

Counting on, some kind of safe bet

If anything, you just trick yourself

Letting go of weight

Falling down too quick

Taking longer than I ever thought

To get back on my own, again

Filling up what's left of me

With something that I've never been

If anything, it's only truth you find

Irrigate your regret

With the poison from that lake

It's hell you'll cultivate

Deep like the bones that never rest

This is what I've grown

This is what I have become

If anything, I wish we had more time

The path outside

Turns, and leads to a ledge

At night, I would sit out on this rock

Thinking of the mess I'd made

And how hard it's been

To keep my balance, while I'm falling

I know now, that you liked me

With both of my feet on the ground

Across from me, the highway roars

like a dark ocean, it echoes

The only constant, 

I'll probably ever know

Giving everything,

You end up with nothing

I guess it only makes sense

In the night sky, 

The stars go on, and on

I'd give anything

To Keep this all from dying

I'm alive inside these walls 

This place is where I'll live

I'm anchored to a severed rope

A kite without a string 

Sink alone, to the ocean floor

Ripped away, in the summer wind