Fall To Your Knees

When you fall to your knees
And pray for sympathy,
You have lost my empathy
And gained my enmity.
For I don't give a shit,
And I don’t care a whit
For a whiner.

But if you fall to your knees
And pray for strength
You have gained my respect
And I may fight your fight
As though it were my own.
For sometimes things aren’t as they seem,
And sometimes they are just as they seem.

Someone once sang,
“We came into this world
Like a dog with out a bone’
Riders on the storm”
And we go on a looking
For that bone,
A place of our own.

Looking to fit.
Hoping for a home
We ride the storm
Until we find a haven,
A place of acceptance.
And someone who will
Share that bone.

Don’t come to me
Looking for sympathy
For things are tough all over.
Rather come to me looking
For someone to share a bone.
No pity here, just someone
Who will watch your back.

The only sure thing
You will ever know
You will find in the grave.
Until then only uncertainty,
And confusion
Between periods of certainty.
Knowledge precludes faith.

So drop to your knees and pray,
For wisdom, not knowledge.
For strength, not pity.
For counsel and guidance,
For love to guide your way,
Along the way you must
Live the life you are living.

Never come here thinking
That I will understand,
For I hardly understand my
Own way, let along yours.
Your way is your way to chose
And remember, not to choose
Is to choose!

So fall to your knees and pray.