THE PAST by Jakia Uddin Lyrics

          Lingering in the air like the smell of a long crushed cigarette
                   Haunting my dreams like a ghost that won’t go away
                            Shaping my future as if I can’t change it
                               Judging me in every way possible

                                             The room is silent
                                    Yet the tension is deafening
                              I want to slice it away with my courage
                      But it appears to be too thick for my plastic words

                       With a voice that’s programmed inside my head
                                                It taunts me
                                    And attempts to pull me back
                  Keep me in the darkness as I blindly reach for the light

                             Do you think that I have not learned?
                          Do you mistake my mistakes for intentions?
                             Do you think I won’t overcome this?

        No matter what my past is, only I am in control of my future.
           Neither you, nor anyone, can tell me how to direct my life.
               I hold the pen to write the ending to my own story.
       I am in the driver’s seat driving my life down the path that                                                I want it to go.
You will forever be something I leave behind and watch distantly                                           in my rear view mirror.

Jakia Uddin
Flushing High School