Everyday is a new day
I'm thankful for
Every breath I take
I won't take you for granted (I won't take you for granted)
So I learn from my mistakes
It's beyond my control
Sometimes it's best to let go
Whatever happens
In this lifetime
So I trust in love (so I trust in love)
You have given me
Peace of mind

I feel so alive
For the very first time
I can't deny you
I feel so alive
I feel so alive
For the very first time
And I think I can fly (fly)

Sunshine upon my face (sunshine upon my face)
A new song for me to sing
Tell the world
How I feel inside (Tell the world how I feel inside)
Even though it might
Cost me everything
Now that I know this
So beyond, I can't hold this
I can never
Turn my back away
Now that I've seen you (Now that I've seen you)
I can neva look away

Now that I know you
(I could never
Turn my back away)
Now that I see you
(I could neva look away)
Now that I know you
(I could neva
Turn my back away)
Now that I see you
(I believe no matta
What they say!)

My God the difference that one person can make in your life is astounding. I look back at where I was and I shudder to think of how I survived there and at the same time it makes me weak in the knees with thanks that you saw something in me. What that was and how you found it I still don't and probably never will. I just know that you did and I have come to realize that it is an essential part of you. You draw the weak and lost to you like the pied piper only unlike him you then take them into yourself and heal then making their lives yours and yours theirs. Fortunately I am the one that you have chosen to keep with you for all time and again it makes me weak with thanks.

Even now I don't think that I will ever be able to be everything that you insist that I am capable of, but I also know that I will fight until my dying day to try and be that man you believe in. I also know that I will die better than I have ever deserved to be. If by some miracle I end up at the Pearly Gates instead the fire and brimstone of hell that the miracle will have your name on it for surely this is something that not even a winged angel in heaven could have foreseen. What you are or where you came from I am not sure but surely you are no creature of this heaven or hell or earth.

Every day that I have you in my life I feel as if I have been given a blessing and every time I think of my past I know that I have. I feel your arms slip loosely around my waist as your lips press against my neck and I smile softly something that before I would have sworn I was incapable of doing. I feel that I have so much in my life to make up for and yet at the same time I trust in your gentle tutoring and will follow your insistence of taking everything a day one at a time. With your help my trust in things is growing, but the one thing that I trust without hesitation or fear of letdown is you. For the first time in my life I can close my eyes at the end of my day and go to sleep without seeing the faces of the people I have caused pain and the souls I have destroyed and I know that it is all because of you.

I feel so much love that I never knew was possible. I was one of those people that believed that love was not really something that existed. It was a fairy tale or myth made up by good mommies and daddies so that their babies could sleep better at night. I never believed that it was a real living and breathing entity that could change your live, but it is and most certainly believe in it. Turning in your arms I look into your eyes and see my future and know that for the first time in my life no matter what else happens I will never be alone again.

As much as things have changed there are some things that never will, but I think the difference is now I see that some of them don't really matter. When I walk down the halls of the arena with you by my side I feel the angry and jealous eyes watching me. People still hate me and ridicule me and strive to make me bleed. And there is still some part of me that feels the pain and enjoys some of it, but you have shown me that it isn't a terrible thing. You also have shown me that I don't need to let the pain take over my life turning me into its slave. You have shown me how to take the pain and let it go.

As our lips touch again I feel my body hardening and know that soon I will be buried inside of you where it is hot and tight and safe. I can't wait and yet at the same time I feel no rush and no constrictions to BE something. But that is part of what you have given me. I don't know where you are going to take me and for once I am not too awfully worried about it. I have never been one to care much about anything except where I am at right at that moment and the only difference is that now I know it will be someplace good.

The End!