Poem of The Day

In My Search For Heaven

Is it a game we play
Every day of our lives
trying to find
what we believe
trying to learn what is right?
So many mistakes I've made
so many times
so many tears
Trying to learn to live
with these regrets

Still it makes me feel like shit
feels like damn
feels like I'm burning inside
It makes me feel like shit
feels like damn
feels like I'm going through hell
In my search for heaven

What is this world we live in?
where you're taught that beauty is skin
Makes you dazed and confused
sets you up to lose
but man, I'm trying to win
So many mistakes I've made
so many times
so many tears
Trying to learn to live
with these regrets of mine

Still it makes me feel like shit
feels like damn
feels like I'm burning inside
Oh it makes me feel like shit
feels like damn
feels like I'm going through hell
In my search for heaven

~ Alicia Keys

More of her poetry can be found in:
Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems and Lyrics