Anagnorisis ' AWAKE AFTER PAINS'

I've always viewed life from the side lines,
just watching it pass me by.
In the past,
too afraid to just let go and live
and lately too tired to try.

I've envied the people around me
so invested in living each day
while I spent my time hiding out from the world
and searching for ways to escape.

For most of my life I truly believed,
I was here to help somebody else
but now it's so clear it was just an excuse
to avoid living life for myself.

It's sad that our lives and the pain we endure
can weaken our strength to move on
but if we get lost in the scars of our past
without knowing our lives will be gone.

It's true, people are disappointing,
they can turn in the blink of an eye
but we can't avoid hurting each other
when we all want a chance at this life.

But there's something I've learned
through the wisdom of age,
a truth about all of our lives,
no matter what path we each take,
in the end, we just want to survive.

So the time has now come to conquer my fears,
and to stand up and face a new day.
Let the hurts of my past wash away with my tears
and stop letting my life slip away.

Mark Williams.

This piece expresses the feelings of a man who is ready to let the pains of his  yesterdays leave with tears as he tells his readers how pains help man to survive in  independence,knowing fully well the inevitability of disappointments.