Path to Serenity

Sometimes it's best to be alone on this ground we walk But no man is an island We give our everything to get nothing in return We're temporary We're always second best and never anything more We're a contingency Nothing is certain yet we still prepare for the worst We won't let them walk over us We're tired but we have a long journey ahead A path in which we have to alter our perception of ourselves Come face to face with our demons to silence them To progress and to climb this mountain of confidence When you pull yourself out from the darkness You're stronger than those who put you there When you've been broken, beyond repair So many times, yet you rise When you find your own path to serenity leave no trail behind When you find the fire in you heart to carry on You'll prevail We're close to the peak but we feel ourselves slipping away Yet we've come so far Now is the time that we used all that we've learned To make it to the top In the heat of the moment, You're blinded by your own thoughts The ones that you did not choose but the ones that were forced upon We're tired but we have a long journey ahead A path in which we have to alter our perception of ourselves Come face to face with our demons to silence them To progress and to climb this mountain of confidence When you pull yourself out from the darkness You're stronger than those who put you there When you've been broken, beyond repair So many times, yet you rise When you find your own path to serenity leave no trail behind When you find the fire in you heart to carry on You'll prevail