Road To Elysia

Let me escape for a moment
To the crevices of my mind,
Hidden is a memory
Still untouched by time.
On the cusp of a long awaited journey
Ingrained upon the heart and mind.
The heart, it is in Mourning
For it shall come to pass
As each event unfolds
The key to salvation
The secret that it holds
The road must be chosen
From a tangled web of lies
A Labyrinth of heartache and a maze of cries
Elysian fields manifests as the destined end of the road
But which path do you follow, which key do you hold?
Follow your heart, the path to paradise.
Follow it not, the future will revise
You will be in Hades land
If you choose to not take the stand.
There You will be left to your own devices
A victim of circumstance?
Pity thyself not, as pity entices.
Come hither to, you've done your time
You took the wrong road
Or so you decide.
But through a miracle, a twist of fate
The road, after all, came to the same place
It took a little longer, was harder to walk
But the lessons you learned, with tears had been bought
And all that was bad and all of the pain
Used for doing better, will not be in vain.
And now you realize you can after all
End the journey as you envisioned so many times through it all
Well worth the wait, through hell I have walked
Heaven awaits, like a beautiful dove
A soul with open arms, Embracing my spirit
Never again,
will I ever fear it.
For now I know how the alternative feels
There is no replacement
For what is real

Be true to you
Love thyself
Honor the dreams you have built for yourself
Betray not the heart that lies within you.
Guilt will taunt
Regret will haunt
But Destiny will carry you through.
Like a mother to a child
Teaching you right from wrong
Taking you to the place where you truly belong
And now you see, the wrong path wasn’t wrong
It was right at the time
Preparing me for the true path of life that is mine
A test road to travel upon, rugged and untamed
Marred and maimed
Full of strife, full of pain
For if you had traveled the road fate had in store
And not this road you chose before
Mistakenly you would have tried
but wouldn’t have been able to endure the time
Not knowing how special something is
until you’ve seen the exact opposite
Fate has prepared you for something more,
something far greater than you ever hoped for
Now you're on your way, you have to start on the next path
Leave this one behind, you're more than glad
All the steps along the way, are tiring but you wont complain
You know what its like to not be here
And there is no other place you'd rather be
Nothing else you'd rather see
Homecoming, its been a long time
A ghost whispered in my ear "go home"
but I took it wrong, I find
This is what he meant, now I understand
He was trying to help me
He tried to take my hand
But I took the long way to the promised land
Home, not a place on earth, but a place inside your heart
To the place of comfort, not hurt
Filled with love and understanding
Not deception or hostility unending
And the friend was mine, not his, I see
The one who had always cherished me
Who was the one who was always there
Always kind, always cared
Treated me like a Queen, loved me unconditionally
Loved me, for me
Much as He did, put no one before me
I tried to make the pieces fit
But the pieces just weren't forming
The picture I had seen, the one I had been shown
The clue to my life, a happy one, a home
I tried to make sense of it, picked the ones it might have been
But I was wrong! It wasn’t any of them
The one who had been there,
sent to me
Long ago, right after the sorrow
When I would go to sleep I wished there would be no more tomorrow
It was then that our paths had crossed
For a short time, and then it was lost
He taught me to live,
He did not take, but gave all he had to give
A friend through and through, the only one who never hurt me,
Unselfish and true
His blue eyes laughing in the snow
Swinging in the park, happiness made me glow
Now I remember you and I always have
But I had an epiphany, please understand
I was afraid of all the feelings, how perfection might subside
I thought I was disillusioned to believe perfection was all mine
There were no indications pointing this out
I felt undeserving of a love so devout
I was afraid, I ran away
Now this is the price I must pay
It took a fool to teach me the way
Back to the one that I should have stayed
Recognition came too late
It should have been sooner
But what I learned is how to be truer
To myself and those I love, Not to be taken for granted
Expressions of love, never devoid of
If I find you again, this can be known
I will never let you go
Your heart, your soul, your mind as a whole
All of you for all of me. To whom must I beg and plead?
Another chance another start
A better love, in a better heart
Until that time, when I know we'll meet
Again someday, a day so sweet
I'll hold you here, inside my heart
Inside my mind your memories will not depart
You will come to me, our paths will merge
Into one road ahead,
You and I
Nothing else needs to be said
The Beginning;
Not the End.