For Once

Day after day
Night after night
as I brave all that life throws at me...

Week after week
Month after month
as I survive just for that moment...

The insults I bear
The hostility I survive

When all that one gets is ridiculed
When all I look forward to is a good word

The moment that is pivotal to this existence
comes and seems to standstill

A moment shrouded in silence
A moment where I pick those pearls of love
A moment where I shed those thorns that have pierced my flesh
A moment where I look for those little words that give me the strength

My heart questions me then
What do I mean to you?

An empty space...
A void that exists between real and the unreal

What do I mean to you?

I know what I know from all that is unspoken...
But, I live to hear those little whispers

And I on my part will wait a lifetime
to hear...

For once let me know
What I mean to you...