Broken Souls

If I could lift your spirit over the river of tears washing you downstream  
I would bear your burden and make your nightmare another kind of dream  
Put down the blade, don’t cut away at the pieces left surrounding your soul  
The pain you feel isn’t the only thing that is still under your control  
Please don’t want to die when there’s so many feelings you haven’t tried  
I know because I wasted thirty- three years wishing I had died  
Until I realized that life is a doorway, you hold the key to be set free  
The dead cannot unlock the secret gate leading to the hallway of eternity  
I’m barely strong enough to carry my broken soul across the parapet  
So follow the sound of my voice to a place you haven’t discovered yet