Can I Make It One More Day

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Can I Make it One More Day

As I drive on the many highways of life

With road blocks, mountains to high to climb,

Dead-man curves into valleys deep as the sea.

With hopes and dreams crushed beyond repair.

I wonder 'has this day been enough of a task'

Did I use this time to find I can make it one more day?

Did I push the hurt and loneliness behind the mask

To cover and hide it all, to show only a surface smile?

As the sun slowly turns into dusk of another lost day

I lift my eyes up, to ask for some promise

Some hope of a future I can't seem to find,

Though the rainfall of tears of loneliness -- I smile.

For at the end of the highway, a promise of hope

Clouds of darkness giving way to every colour

That heaven has to give, today's last sun rays

Still engulfing this earth with their beauty and warmth.

Like the day, love is not, there is a reason

The memories fill me with warmth, like the sun

It will hold me, engulf me, till the clouds are gone

And a new day, and new time will be in my life.

Yes, I can make it one more day.

© Ruth Osborne

~ " We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a

little of each other everywhere. " ~

~ " If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the

entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. "