Not Your Year

Scattered shadows on a wall, you watch the long light fall

Some impressions stay and some will fade

Tattered shoes outside your door, clothes all on the floor

Your life feels like the morning after all year long.

Every day it starts again

You cannot say if you're happy

You keep trying to be

Try harder, maybe this is not your year.

Movies, TV screens reflect just what you expected

There's a world of shiny people somewhere else

Out there following their bliss

living easy, getting kissed

while you wonder what else you're doing wrong

Breathe through it, write a list of desires

Make a toast, make a wish, slash some tires

Paint a heart repeating, beating "don't give up, don't give up, don't give up."