Just one more chance is all I ask.
My heart aches for the chance to bask
in the radiant laughter of my friends,
the chance to show how they defend
with courage and love my dignity.
To weep from grief and tragedy,
and have my heart tremble from fear.
Oh! To be so alive to feel my heart be pierced
from the pain of loss, sorrow and woe!
and alive enough to feel my soul radiate with hope!
To see the sunset tomorrow,
to feel the warmth of its glow.
To smell the warm spring rain,
and hear its soft puttering on the window pane.
Burdensome suffering? I had not suffered enough!
Oh, what I would give, though life is tough-
Oh, so much I would give
that once more I may live,
but, alas… alas,
today was my last.
Just one more chance
is all I ask