The Spotlight

It is hard to sit and then to try and write words from my heart

For words that mean some things to you mean nothing to someone else

The Dreams of things to come and things that may not be

Consequences of things thought of that filled your every move

I know sometimes I feel like I have it all together

When friends are around, and family

And when it feels that life itself is in love with me

Those moments of glory when all I can see is me in the spotlight

Me taking to the centre stage, me riding the waves of applause

The crowds loving me and me just being me

It is hard to think of those moments though when all you have are trying times

Tribulations of sorts staring in the face as myriads of deposition charge at the soul

Times of fitful sleeps, troubled dreams and nightmares the little time sleep grants you audience

And friends – a million light years off

Here I wait seating, longing for me stepping up to the podium

Reaching the spot where the lights hit the stage, just me

And tell my story like only I can tell it

Voice my heart like only I can do

Raise high my speech high beyond the enclosure

Traversing yards and yards of space filled emptiness

Never would have thought that dreams could be so charged

Imaginations so fired up

Looking to see that day

When my desires and hopes would be

The slightest hint of water brings the trees to life

Now I tweak my nose I smell something in the air

It smells clean, it smells different

And when I am done taking my bit of shine

In the light that everyone wants a bit of but only a few will ever ride on

Step even higher and then shine the light on you

I was never made to shine by myself for then the darkness all around will burn out mine

But when I through my light, shine a little light on you, and the next

And you shine a little on the next, and one after

I will truly have hit the spot where the lights don’t shine down

Where the light that shines is me, you and the next

A spot where the light actually shines from

A place from deep down;

A heart that gives