Photo Credit: German Duno
Sometimes, there just really isn’t anything we can do to improve certain situations.
Options run out. Patience runs out.
Simply accepting the fallacy of others’ actions as well as our own is the best closure.
We cannot blame others or ourselves.
Culpability can‘t always be justly pinned. It‘s difficult to see where it lies at times.
Why point fingers, retaliate, avenge and make matters worse?
Whose fault is it truly?
Many times, we are victims of the unfavorable circumstances this disorderly world hands us.
There is too much to think through.
Eventually, we have to permit the universe take its course and allow future events to guide us.
I penned the lyrics of this song as an observation of this human condition.
May we have the wisdom to better ourselves after every failure we encounter on our trajectory.
“I DIDN’T KNOW”
Songwriter: © Fatima Morken, 2015 BMI
VERSE 1:
I see destruction and animosity
all around me
I see how we destroy our gorgeous selves
Selfishly
I see how burdened I become at night
and in dreams
I sense my choices tarnishing the light
within me
CHORUS:
I didn't know
I didn't know
I didn't know my choices would lead me to devastation
I didn't know
I didn't know
I didn't know the love for myself would rust my soul to corrosion
I didn't know
VERSE 2:
I understand how I’ve betrayed myself
and those
Whom I told once I loved with all my heart
and chose
To ignore their plea when they asked for
my help
And I refused to lend a hand
and now I fall apart
REPEAT CHORUS
BRIDGE:
So I want to go back
and start over again
and search for those
I've hurt so much
and strictly silenced
By ignoring their pleas
and their desperate attempts
In retrospect
I regret
FINAL CHORUS:
I didn't know
I didn't know
I didn't know my choices would lead me to devastation
I didn't know
I didn't know
I didn't know the love for myself would rust my soul to corrosion
I didn't know
I didn't know
I didn't know
I didn't, I didn't know