Dilemma

I was happy for one brief day
A day I’ve waited for all my life
Now they want to take it away

They have a point, it’s true
But thinking of parting
Makes me so blue

It’s best for my future, so they say
But this feeling…
I want to seize today

I’m in a dilemma—
Don’t know what to do
I want to please them
But to myself I must be true

They’re trying to cut off a part of me
I really feel like a bonsai tree

It isn’t easy to let him go…
It’s even harder to kill the feelings, so…

I must make a choice
Wreck my brain,
Maybe wreck my heart,
But learn from the pain

February 1996