Surely there some life lesson I haven’t yet learned

Daily doing my best and this is what I have earned

Surely I am missing the mark, this all seems not right

Surrounded by the darkness stumbling to reach light

Waking up each day waiting for night again to close my eyes

Exhausted of swimming upstream against my life's tides

Begging for strength that I may again stand on steady land

Instead of going under the foundation of this sinking sand

Holding on to my faith praying it doesn’t slip away

While still waiting for answers why this is happening everyday

Nothing left I have to be stripped or taken from me

Empty years of labor, all I had is gone no longer there to see

Lost in my thoughts of despair wanting to turn back time

Having all returned to me that once was all mine

In the silence of my thoughts a familiar voice whispers in my heart

Remember that I am that I am and you are my work of art

I am the one who gives and I am the one who takes away

My love is what will forever remain at the end of each day

All else will come and go with the sands of time

Except the love I have for you, I am yours and you are mine

So you see there is no loss of worth or value to what you own

My love is all you will carry with you when I take you home.