Don’t give up son
I know that you are tired
Them emotions come bubbling up some
Leave your brain feeling rewired.
 
We can go to awful despair
When we feel our feelings aren’t cared for
Or we try to summon up the words for feelings
That for us were never really there for.
 
It can take some life from you
When they all come together at once
Or people demand from you
Like you can never give enough.
 
Don’t give up son
I know that you are tired
Them emotions come bubbling up some
Leave your brain feeling rewired.
 
The things that you plough through
Sometimes they plough through you
You’re not failing any test
On the times you are not at your best.
 
You have a lot on your plate
There is a lot of good that you do
It’s alright if you’re not feeling great
I wish I could have been there more for you.
 
Don’t give up son
On those days that you are tired
You need to open up some
Even if it’s not with the one that you desired.
 
You need to let life in son
You’ve spent far too long alone
And I know in your heart you think you’ve found the woman
But that woman has said that she’s gone. 
 
You need to start living your life son
In a more caring, deeper way
Where the love that you give out
Is there for you in a similar way. 
 
Don’t give up son
You are heading in many good directions
And I know for you son
This has been one of your hardest lessons.
 
You never quit easy
I’ve always noticed that in you
And when you get your teeth in a thing
You like to see that thing through. 
 
You’ve handled a lot of loss
I’m pretty proud of the way you handled mine
And if there’s a spirit world
Know mine was with you at the time.
 
We can decide what we let in
And we can decide what we cut out
When we are strong enough
To see clearer through our doubts.
 
To do that we drink them in
We let them fill us whole
And we blow out the ones
That don’t align with our soul.
 
Don’t give up son
Today you are just feeling tired
Coming to the end of a long run
Of not really meeting your needs or desires.
 
Don’t give up son
For what looks like a painful end
Can be the beautiful start for some
In which open hearts mend. 
 
And the more you open yours
The more I’m sure that pain will ease
The fact the woman that you love, is loving someone else
Is something time will just unfortunately have to tease. 
 
You need to let some others care for you
For precious is our time
And you’re in need of love
And you never got enough of mine. 
 
Things don’t always work out
I’m the living dead proof
But everyday of life
Is an extra day of youth.
 
Don’t give up son
I know that you are tired
Them emotions come bubbling up some
Leave your brain feeling rewired.
 
Life is full of pressure
But precious does life be
And though I’m not there to say it
‘Son, you were always precious to me.’
 
Don’t give up son
You just going through incremental change
And I never knew change 
That wasn’t laced with pain.
 
You’re just re-walking your hell
Learning what served you well
Cracking open that protective shell
And drinking in the future’s smell.
 
Don’t give up son
Your heart is just reopening
And in order to do that 
We need to look at what’s been broken in it.
 
Don’t give up son
For never has that been you
You’re just breathing in your doubts
And breathing out what’s not for you.
 
Don’t give up son
For in life there is no smooth sea we sail upon
We battle against the tide 
We’re always going to get stuff wrong.
 
Don’t give up son
You just realign with the heart in you
You give that heart time
And you continue being you.
 
I’m proud of the man you are
I’m proud of the man I see
And every single man has to ask the same question
How much more can that man be? 
 
Don’t give up son 
For that’s not something that we do
But that’s just the man in me
Talking, to the man, I see, in you. 

© Daniel Breslin