What I Can Be

What I can be has always been a part of me A part of the heart that I never set free Concealed in time like a distant memory The person that I am still waiting to be Like a beautiful dream that is lost to a scream Or a sad little cloud on a low-pressure stream Like the gentle morning dew that retreats with a sigh When the sun sits supreme at the top of the sky What I can be is someone who I never was before Somebody who will love me and will like me even more Somebody strong to lift me up when I begin to tire A friend to fill my empty cup and set my heart on fire Upon the tallest mountain peak the day is bright and clear A place of peace and harmony and courage more than fear Where every view is like a vision of the one I need to be Who looks for good in everyone instead of back at me What I can be is everything I look for every day For kindness from the ones I meet in deeds and what they say How strange it is that we admire a person's shadow shown And overlook the one inside, the real one unknown In every man and woman is someone who we can't see And yet we know that everyone is much like you and me So be a friend to someone who no one is thinking of What I can be is someone who will take the time to love.