Staring At My Cardboard Box - Home(less) for the Holidays

There's a darkness that covers my heart

That suffocates and strangles me 

That blinds me to the light

And tells me that I can't be what I can be

Sitting on the corner of here and nowhere

Staring at my cardboard box

Trying to catch a glimmer of a dream

Each day another blow in a life of hard knocks

There's a shadow that won't let me be

A ghost that grabs at each breath

And yet hope still resides in my soul

Telling me I'm not done yet

As I look out on the blank stares

The empty eyes blocking the sun

I refuse to lay here and disappear

For I know there are races to be run

It seems I have spent my whole life

   With a song that I never could share

   I can't remember a day

   Where I was ever really somewhere

   

   Where I was really somewhere

   Where the trees were ever in bloom

   Where there was somewhere to go

   Except here in my cardboard room

  Where the darkness did not cover my heart

  Where pain did not rest in my soul

  Where I was more than this

  Where I believed that I was whole

  There's a shadow that won't let me be

  A ghost that grabs at each breath

  And yet hope still resides in my soul

  Telling me I'm not done yet

  I know I'm not done yet