You stay, and you pray, everyday
For something to change
Just when you're ready to give up, give in
Some small shred of hope surfaces from that black water
You grab it and hold on for dear life, but it slowly sinks
Leaving you treading water , alone again
This is the way its been for years
So you cast about for some other way to be comfortably miserable
A never ending battle to just hang on to something
A lover, a relationship, a life, sanity
Constantly swimming around trying to find anything
In this murky, cold water, exhausted
You know you can turn toward the shore
But that would be giving up everything you fought so hard for
But life is not fair, it plays cruel tricks
When you decide to swim to shallower water you turn
And realize the undertow has pulled you out so far
That the shoreline has disappeared
All that time you just accepted being comfortably miserable
Has brought you to the end...