And We Still Breathe

"Maybe it’s just as much about what comes our way as it is about how we react.

Just as much about the things that we’ve still got as it is about the things we lack.

I know we won’t always keep around those we feel we need–

some will fade in frames, some were born to leave–

But if we’re still here, and we still breathe,

At least we’ve still got time to figure it out,

To know what to do, 

To know how to feel,

Know the things that I’ve been making up inside my head, and

To know what’s real.

I want to believe that the way I am is just the way it goes.

For the things that came, not the things I chose 

to come. 

I want to know if I had any control.

I want to know if it’d comfort me."