I had built up all of my hopes and all of my plans    Only to have them stand and cast shadows of humiliation    Days would pass shadows would remain    A reminder of all of my dreams    I had to live humbled with    The disappointment of what never came to be       I vow from this day forward    My grieving will be brief    That I will continue to give to this world    Knowing I may never receive       I had come so far    Before being stripped and sent back to the start    It felt as though the air was tearing me apart       A hybrid of seasons had come    It swept across the land    It spared the lives of everyone else    While it destroyed everything I had done       The frost came in the night    My progress immortalized    All that I had left undone    Would be forever, frozen in time       I became known for this curse    It happened throughout my life    It needed to continue to occur    In order to keep my legacy alive       Before I know my time had arrived    It was already gone    Cursing the cold winds of change    My moment of peace was just the eye of the storm       The will to live is easy    You can exist without a care    The will to die shows it meant so much    That you couldn’t have it - and you couldn’t go on living without it       The will to give makes the best of nothing    It is a philosophy    That states you will continue to give to this world    Knowing you may never receive.       Satisfaction will come and in time it will leave us unsatisfied    As uncertainty returns    Bringing back the excitement to our lives    We can only enjoy so much stimulation    Before we stop responding and become despondent again.       I had built up all of my hopes and all of my plans    Only to have them stand and cast shadows of humiliation    Days would pass shadows would remain    A reminder of all of my dreams    I had to live humbled with    The disappointment of what never came to be       Those shadows still remain as landmarks of failed attempts    In their shade I work away at building a tower of character    One day it will be revealed and it will stand for man years    Casting a shadow of its own and striking fear in hearts - as will I       It is the discomfort that sets us apart    That wakes us up, that puts us to sleep    It is our pathetic moments    Which make us desire to be great       It is the starving itself    That makes us hungry to want more    Over time as you learn to fall    You’ll rise to your feet faster than the time before       Satisfaction is a peak on the verge of decline    It will be over in the blink of an eye    Take your time to feel every moment    A gradual climb will let you enjoy it       For your life is measured    By the degree of dynamic from your life to your death    The wait is long and the wait goes on    But it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive       Through the crests and troughs    I will have seen both sides    By the Pursuit of the Sun and the Allure of the Earth    I will have earned and spent my life       The will to give    There is no destination    There is only the journey