When expectations rise, but the results don’t show…

What next?

When life tosses us around with illusions of positivity

What next?

How can we rise again when we fall?

What more can we do to make it big?

When books, friends, and family fail

What next?

How do we get back on track when we run out of course?

When we see ourselves in the ugliest of situations,

We wait, we cry, we seek earnestly for salvation

But find none.

Oh… how can we get back up?

When the world, our families, friends, acquaintances

oh, even our perky friends

look up to us for something great and wonderful,

yet we find ourselves stuck in a truckload of failure…

Oh, how can we get back up?

It’s painful. It’s sickening. It’s demoralizing

When our expectations are dashed.

What is the way out?

Who can help us out?

I write out of pain, real pain.

My heart sinks when I think of home: of Mom. Dad. Church. Friends.

Of course, it shouldn’t be so.

But the journey of life feels straight and precise,

yet it’s riddled with unpredictable turns.

Who knows what lies at the next corner, when we make a sharp turn?

But listen…

There is always a way out of every creepy situation.

There is always a way out of every heartbreaking experience.

There is always a way out of every torturing habit.

Seek the truth and you will find it.

Oh… how can we get back up?

Even in silence, the heart learns to stand.