With Broken Wings (2013)

How

How can I smile through the sorrow

Laugh through the pain

Hope for tomorrow

And dance in the rain?

How can I love knowing that I'll lose again

How can I fight away fear

How do I conquer the anguish

And motivate myself through the days?

How do I move ahead

When i am stuck in the past

How can I accept that you're dead

And keep on loving when I know that nothing will last?

How can anything else replace what we had

How can anyone else fill the hole 

That you've left in my heart

Fix the screaming rift in my soul

Left when I lost the person I most of all will miss?

How do I close my eyes and sleep at night

Knowing that you won't be there if I wake with a fright

How can I will myself to keep going

When all I want to do is go back to where we were?

I don't have any answers

Just memories and trinkets and words left unsaid

That tear me apart from the inside out

Knowing that now they'll never be heard

And feeling as though I am a burden in the wake of your passing

Being pessimistic in thinking that nothing is lasting

But knowing that one day it will all come too fast

And I don't want any opportunities to fly past

Leave me with regrets and a liftetime wasted

Being caught up in the big things

When in truth it's the small ones

That matter the most

So love like you've never been hurt

Smile like you've never cried

Dance like no one is watching

Sing like your voice has never left you

And despite the pain clawing at your broken heart

Despite the ragged scars and shattered perceptions

Live your life the way you want to remember it

Because one day you'll look back on it all

And want to know that you did what you loved

And left no regrets 

Made all your mistakes

And learned

And loved

And laughed

And most importantly, LIVED your life

The best way that you possibly could