By Dark

How does it feel at the top of it all?
Is it just as you imagined
Or do you still feel small?

What do you see at the top of the hill?
Are you hungry for more
Or did you eat your fill?

And there’s no shame
Full-fledged and illuminated
In the light and it’s morning time
And, by dark, you’ll be somewhere new
It’s everything you dreamt you’d do

Was it just a path of pretending?
And all this time, I thought it true
And never-ending

So which stories will you choose to bury?
I can’t decide which I will hide
Or carry with me

And there’s no shame
Full-fledged and illuminated
In the light and it’s morning time
And, by dark, you’ll be somewhere new
It’s everything you dreamt you’d do
But nothing ever satisfies

And there’s no shame
Full-fledged and illuminated
In the light and it’s morning time
And, by dark, you’ll be far away
I never got the chance to say