what does life have on it's shelf
I sit in the dark all by my self./Thinking what does life have on it's shelf
Anything for me./I'm to short I can't see
As I take my hand and lift it high./Reaching for that piece of the sky
I grab hold of something so tight./Not letting go in the chilling night
I do not know what have I grasped./It might be covered, completely masked
I try to pull and bring it near./My heart starts to pump, full of fear
I tell my self "Don't worry be brave."./It's beginning to get cold like a dark cave
It starts at my feet rising to my thigh./I'm feeling the tension in the thing in the sky
The chill is beginning to crawl up my arm./To my fingers, beginning to harm
My grip begins to fade./Strength is weakened by the shade
I start to lose it, fate is coming so near./But what was I holding that seems so dear
I do not know my mind is confused./All know is I wanted it my grip so fused
I will not let go I can not now./Something I wanted could be mine, you ask how
As I fight against the chill./Weakening my grip, making me ill
I struggle on it means so much./I can feel the joy of it's touch
But as I pull tighter the weight begins to increase./The pain is intense, but I can not release
I pull with emotion not with my hand./I'm winning the battle, I have put up a stand
I feel the chill beginning to fade./Crawling away into the shade
I pull for the thing up so high./Pulling it closer, out of the sky
But as I pull and know I can win./I feel the same pain something starts to begin
I know I can not remove this thing from the sky./For if I do, for then it will die
But my grip is so tight I can not remove./My hand from this thing which my heart it sooths
So I think to my self what am I doing wrong./I have exhausted myself for so very long
So as I sit in the dark all by myself./Now I know what life has on it's shelf
And I see what it has brought./Joy to a lonely heart
So I take my grip so very tight./And climb up and join this thing in the night.
