Two days from now is production
Will you come with me to get my sight back?
I know, ten years along time without seeing
Without wanting to see.
I want to see
I’m letting go of the past
I want to see the world
Your face, his face, their faces
Your children, my wedding
The colors
To be no longer in darkest
To see the light.
I don’t want to count my steps
To not guess where I should be looking.
Will you come with me?
The doctor explains all the dangers
You hold my hand tight.
I'm not afraid
You are
Thinking all will go wrong.
The laser starts…
Day of production
My eyes still bandage up
We get in costumes and makeup
I do the first scene without you
We don’t meet until two hours later.
The bandages come off
The moment capture on film
It’s the child meeting the mother for the first time
Both our breathes are taking away
We continue with the scene
Cut.
We both cry
I don’t want to move
I don’t want to take my eyes off of you.
Don’t want to leave your side.
I'm the weak one for the first time.
I can’t lose a second of this
Taking in this moment
Pausing it.
My first movie
Where I didn’t count my steps
Where I didn’t have to act like
I could see.
That’s a wrap.
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”- James Dean
So why not take the risk
Take the chance.
Conquer your fears.
Shine in the darkness.
Run into the fire.
Fight instead of flight.
Save a life.
Go out of control.
Live by your own rules.
Be crazy.
Be yourself.
Fall in love.
Be loved.
Find a reason to smile.
Laugh the loudest.
Chase your dreams.
Make them real.
Most importantly
When the world says you cant
Show it that you can.
Take the world.
Take a risk.
Take a chance.
I dance with him
eery day.
Some hate him.
Some fear him.
I don’t.
I see the good in him
Most wouldn’t think
There is good in him.
He never lets go and
When I fall
He pulls me in
In his arms,
I feel safe.
I dance with him
The sounds of the world
Is our music.
His wings have two sides
One is his devil wing
And the other is his angel wing.
The world hates him
But he is human.
He smiles.
He laughs.
He cries.
He gets angry.
He cares.
He loves.
He is the angel.
He is the devil.
Went to war
The other day
Yet I’m hiding in shame.
You see the sky today
Filled with clouds
Crying throughout the day
That’s what the inside
Of my head looks like.
Went to war
The other day
Funny thing
You won’t notice or
Know a thing about it
By just looking at me.
I'm from that battlefield
I’ve been traveling all night.
Went to war
The other day
I’m from the battlefield.
I was destroyed
I was remade
In the battlefield.
I left as a young soldier
You never wanted me to go,
But I had to fight.
The last time I saw you,
You were asleep
The day I left.
I'm in the doorway
Cross from you
My eyes are dark
Holes through my uniform
Gun on my back
I still have my hemalt.
When I enter
You welcome me,
All I want to know
Is can I rest my head
For a while, away from
The battlefield.
You never want me to leave
Cause you are afraid
That one day ,
I might not return,
Or I might return
With more wounds and holes
Then I have now.
Don’t worry I’ll make sure
That you won’t have to see them.
Days later…
I’m sorry
It’s time that I go back
Don’t want to go,
But duty calls.
Be safe.
Don’t worry too much.
See you later.
I walk away
I can’t look back at you
And I go back to
The battlefield.
As if you have
never been here the leaves change.
the snow falls.
the rain drips.
The sun burns.
As if you have
Never been here
Life keeps moving
There’s no stop or pause button,
the earth keeps spinning
and the clock still ticks.
As if you have
Never been here
I’m smiling, laughing.
You put a hold on everything
but I kept moving.
As if you have
never been here
everything seems so clear.
As if you have
never been here
I listen to my friends
and hear them.
For the first time they make sense
and I’m not deinning their words anymore.
As if you have
never been here
my world is brightening up.
My friends saw the abuse
now they see the freedom.
As if you have
never been here.
