Start Over

How many times
Have you stopped
And thought
I do not have the strength
To carry on
But you button your shirt
And you brush up the crumbs
And go

How many times
Have you taken a breath
So deep it’s as if
You’d been holding your chest
For an hour or a day
Then you exhale again
And start over

Hold your ambitions down
Til the evening comes around
And don’t be too hard
Since you made it this far
Start over

How many times
Have your eyes scraped their lids
As they make their way down
Past capillaries ridged
So you rub them again
Sit straighter and then you
Start over

And on another day
You might humbly try again
But ‘til then steel yourself
With еxpectations shelved
Start ovеr

And don’t be too hard
Since you made it this far
Start over