Children Don't Stop Dancing

This is actually reference to a song by Creed that came up on a shuffled song mix on my iPod as I walked home from the neighborhood gym on a muggy summer night along a rain-soaked sidewalk.

For many reasons that I don't understand myself, I was melancholy. You might even say I was sad. I know the reason as to why I had the feeling but I had no idea how much I needed to hear the following lyrics to the Creed song as they start to seep into my ear canal. I walk more slowly as the dusk turns to dark and I'm totally immersed in the music.

As I reach the front porch of my home, I sit in one of the rocking chairs and listen more intently. I release into the air the fact that life hasn't been fair, that love and friendship aren't returned in the way they are given. With the tears that are welling up in my eyes, I also release the fact that foreign items have had to be cut from my body and hopefully will never return.

I then release the fact that I can't control most of what happens in my day to day life and that I feel over-run by my life instead of me directing the show. I also release that many loved ones in my life complain, dissappoint, and demand. I try to release that so many who have entered my life aren't what they appear. I know this because several have revealed their true selves to me only to force me to keep secrets I wish never had in order to spare others of the pain.

I also take baby steps each day attempting to do the most important job on the planet - be a mother. I release the angst, the guilt and the non-stop worry. I listen. I release. I cry.

At times life is wicked and I just can't see the light

A Silver lining sometimes isn't enough to make summer all seem right

Whatever life brings, I've been through everything

and now I'm on my knees...

But I must go on and I know must be strong

because inside I know that many feel this way.

Children Don't Stop Dancing

Believe You Can Fly

Oh yeah

Oh yeah

At times life's unfair

and you know it's plain to see

Hey God, I know I'm just a dot in this world

Have you forgot about me?

Whatever life brings, I've been through everything
and now I'm on my knees...
But I must go on although I've heard I must be strong
because inside I know that many feel this way.

Children Don't Stop Dancing
Believe You Can Fly
Oh yeah
Oh yeah

Children Don't Stop Dancing
Believe You Can Fly
Oh yeah
Oh yeah