Glass Maze

Right outside of here is where we smash against each other

Skin on skin

Skinny straw blades against the storm

Bending the hard way

Mistakes on high

Young and old, graceless

We have no chance

And it's only in our minds that we have no choice

There is always choice

We always have it

Welcome to life

Entire libraries built inside of people have been lost

Keep making

Bend your life into anyone you can see

Forehead against forehead

Spilling everything inside our frail machines

Full of stupidity

Distracted with Energy

Weighing us down with enough hope

That we might have a chance to stay longer

There will always be change to teach us balance

To show us common sense

If we're willing

Person against person

Bringing us back to learning

Where shame lifts like a curtain

And it's our time to dance

Have you had enough flailing?

Take time to be kind

And also to yourself

Build the future, together

With your hands

With your loves

Pounding time into its permanence

Folding it on top of itself

Our skin made out of sandpaper

Wearing each other down

Until we're shorter

Worn down with memories

And the choices we've decided on

Or passed over

Or lucked in to

What a mess

What a thing

What a life

We are all playing pretend

Crashing into each other

Waking up with brand new hearts

That only work when we make them die

Over and over again

Inside this glass maze

It's the only way

And that's just for today