DESTINY

Is inside of me

It allows me to be All that I can be

It forges my dreams

Into reality

Causing me to think

And to finally see

The shadows of my dreams

From so long ago

Taking me to places

I never thought I'd go

Remembering the tears

Mixed in the shame

Of not really truly

Knowing my name

Seeing distant tomorrows

Run from yesterdays

Because today was too painful

And had no place to stay

I see the bloodstained backs

Of men long since dead

I hear all of the hurtful

Things that were said

Cast in the shadows

Lost in the dirt

I never could figure

Just what I was worth

Freedom seemed like something

I never would know

Allows told who I was

Always told where to go

Never having a mind

To do as I pleased

I was "simply existing"

Living, for me had ceased

But then someone told me

The shackles were gone

I could finally stand

I could be on my own

Because men and women

Took a chance, made a stand

They changed the direction

Of this confused land

I could live my own life

Choices, decisions were mine

It all did work out

Everything would be fine

I could walk the streets

With my head held high

I could proudly look

Other people in the eye

The sky is the limit

Only you cast the ceiling

I control my own destiny

Oh my, what a feeling