The time has come to put myself out there
The parapet has sheltered me long enough
It does no good to be a shrinking violet
A seed has to grow if it wants to be loved
I hid my dreams from my conscious mind
While I pursued different ways of getting ahead
My heart waited patiently as I got dizzy
Trying to make money while feeling like lead
I put my body on the line to make a profit
Pushed my will to the max to stay above water
I done all I could to avoid the sinking rat race
When I enter that I’m like a lamb to the slaughter
So I joined pyramid schemes to get rich quick
But I didn’t have the energy to reach the capstone
I heard about online fortunes being made
I thought that was the way to get this dog his bone
So I built several websites to turn sweat into cash
I followed the pied pipers of business building
They promise the earth if you do what they say
But all I was doing was polishing their gilding
Through my efforts I made an obvious discovery
If your heart is on ice money means nothing
To trade in your soul for the means to an end
Is like cutting your tongue out so that you can sing
Because I was choosing to ignore my creative spark
There was no healthy channel for its inevitable release
So it expressed itself in a myriad of social settings
I turned into one of the T-Birds from Grease
I was like a crazed bull in my own china shop
Chasing mad cows like they were going out of fashion
My mind told me that I deserve to be loved
That I had a divine right to live life with passion
Of course, this is true but with no heart to guide it
I tried to manipulate and control situations
I mistook the outside world as outside myself
Which lead to a series of romantic frustrations
I started to figure out why nothing goes right
My ego was grasping at too many a short straw
None of its options had the means to go deep
Believing they did was its biggest character flaw
The time came when I got beyond physically tired
So I sat down to contemplate where I had been
My tracks made a spaghetti junction seem straight
My heart was still waiting for my brain to go green
So now work and love were both out of balance
The time had come to look straight in the mirror
I had travelled too far from the core of my being
I had to turn around so I could start to get nearer
I was living as an inhabitant of chapel perilous
A body functioning but with no self-control
The waters in my psyche were stagnant and muddy
I was behaving like a demonic paranoid troll
This was indeed the dark night of my soul
So I reached for the light to see the righteous path
I stumbled upon it by the grace of the goddess
Feeling her love was enough to cause me to laugh
So now I am following the river of least resistance
I choose not to listen to what business leaders say
They make hard work sound like a worthwhile pursuit
But now is the time my carefree joy had its day
I will let go of my past successes and failures
Learn and explore new directions of thought
I’ll open my sail and let inspired winds set my course
Life is to be lived; it is not a war to be fought
I trust that by taking this leap of blind faith
The universe will show me the signs to follow
If I can make some money along the way
That will prove financial success doesn’t have to be hollow
Cheers!
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