Where do I start?
I have so much to say.
Where do I start?
I need to find the way.
It has been so long since I used my words
Been around so many bends and curves
But it seems that I lost all the knack and the urge
Where do I start?
Where do I start?
The words may come, but they’re not my own.
Where do I start?
I’m by myself, but I’m not alone.
Someone is walking right beside me
Urging me on, right there to guide me
Give good counsel and advise me
Where do I start?
I feel like I’m starting from scratch
I fear that I may never match
The heights that I reached in my past
And all the best is saved for last
Is my last behind me or still ahead?
Has all I have to say already been said?
Mine isn’t to question ... just to do
The old is said and done—go into the new.
Where do I start?
Look at this, I already started
Where do I start?
The big wide sea has parted
Walls of water to my left and right
A dry land path, leading me to the light
I emerge now from the expired night
Where do I start.
©2024 The Hesh Inc.
In the spring of 2022, shortly after my father passed away, I began to feel an acute sense of my own mortality, which lit a fire underneath me to finish all my unfinished lyrics and other projects that had been languishing on my shelves and in my various computer drives for years. Before I actually began to work on the song completion, I wrote a new song describing how I was feeling at the beginning of what was sure to be a long journey. But such long journeys begin with a small step, and this song was that small step. The journey ended up lasting about two years, but I did in fact finish the lyrics. (No music for it yet.)
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