Through a Stained Lens

Tick tock, tick tock
Your clock has run out
The sins of your past bury you now
Broke and defeated I stand so you know
Through all my failures I learned how to grow
Fighting and pushing to weather the storm
Winds of ambition will carry me home

Discarded yet still I refuse to quit
Fueled by a desire that can't be broken
This life I've built with my own hands
Structures of brick that will forever stand
The rest of time, torment, and anguish
I once was lost but found myself again
I see the man I was meant to become
My inner strength will not be undone

Through a stained lens
I see the world through the lessons I've learned
I won't stop fighting my voice will be heard
Through a stained lens
Colors teach us to see beauty beneath
The bitterness that we once chose to see

Awake and alive
Persevering through the darkest of nights
Fueled by an undying will to survive

My chains of depression have been set free
With confidence I stand on my own two feet
Behind every torn and tattered soul
Lies an unending strength to carry on
Ignore the thoughts of negativity
Instead build a future you wish to see
There is solace and there is peace
Knowing we hold the keys to our destiny