Effort

Point blank,   We give up too easy. We don't try hard enough. We want everything to be smooth sailing. When in reality it is going to be more like a roller coaster. The easy route is not always the best route. If you say you love someone, and you truly mean it, Why not put forth a little effort to keep them?

Effort

 

Something is missing

I can’t quite put my finger on it

It seems to be too fast for the touch

Too small for the eye

And I have been racking my brain trying to figure this out

We both lack effort

Our life is in a standstill

Brakes glued to the floor

No reverse, no drive

Until we can understand the others intentions

Too many interventions

And we lost our grips, fingertips slipped

And our love started falling away from each other

Not sure if it will ever recover

Critical condition

Tubes of doubt shoved into our bodies

And we exhale slow short breaths

Can’t seem to regain that rhythm in our chest

It used to be simultaneous

And now we’re blaming us

A joint effort of destruction

So full of assumption

Was this really all for nothing

Do we give up or try

Rebirth or die

Do we put our seatbelt on and sit back for the ride

What is it gonna take

Relive our mistake

Or embrace our shortcomings

We are supposed to forgive and forget

But it seems we’re stuck on replay

Rewinding the string that started the unraveling in the first place

All these years, now considered and endangered species

One thread out of place produces the biggest consequence

Abandoning ship

Too many waves and now we’re sea sick

No life jackets

We’d rather drown alone

Than fight the storm together

Always pursuing the worst when we can do so much better

If we try

But somebody’s got to make the first move

It shouldn’t require flipping a coin

Heads or tails shouldn’t determine whose love is true

There’s got to be more evidence, more proof

That this love is worth a fighting chance

We need to both be in a fighting stance

Because we just can’t drop the ball over lack of effort

Let our arms give out

Feeling like we are in the test of time

And we didn’t even study

Didn’t even glance at the notes

And now we’re straddling the fence in an all she wrote situation

Like what’s the use of praying if we’re not willing to put in the work

Give the other what they deserve

Too concerned about the water under the bridge, we don’t want to cross it

So we can’t focus on the bigger picture

Blurred by one incident

Not scared to fail, but scared to succeed

A different kind of feeling you never felt

So unreachable in your mind that you sabotage yourself

Already wrote each other off

Now who’s left to help

So why don’t we pick up these pieces side by side

One conversation at a time

And start reliving our lives

All it takes is a little effort

 

 

 

 

Nakesha Graves