Resurrect

For awhile now I've lived a lie, Happiness shadowed by too many sighs, The strength to escape, a distant thing, My love a bird with broken wings, Hiding like a child deep inside; Yet I strive to find one shred of hope, That I might escape the coiled rope, Find a spark to shatter the growing dark, Burn the misery from my heart, A chance to ascend the looming slope; And from the darkness deep within my mind, Despite the chains of Yesterday's confines, From the smoldering ashes of my crucifix, I rise to become my own exorcist, Casting out the demons I'll leave behind; Again I have found myself in me, The magic in which I once believed, A piece of steel that refused to melt, A shield against the pain I felt, A sharpened sword I have retrieved; Now pushing away the final shards, From a crystal cage once diamond hard, I set upon this journey long awaited, Back to the life I once traded, A chance to draw a better card; From behind the barrier I did erect, I emerge from a life I must reject, Invoke the magic of the ancients, Wait a time in silent patience, Knowing now, I'll resurrect.