IN THE MIDDLE

IN THE MIDDLE

There’s a demon that lurks deep within.

He makes me do bad things, he makes me sin.

There’s an angel that helps me do good and keeps away the devil.

He keeps me pointed in the right direction but I keep drifting back in the middle.

There’s a darkness that consumes my soul.

There’s a light that keeps me with a goal.

The angel has no harp and the devil has not fiddle.

Between the two of them, I’m stuck in the middle.

Some believe there is a God and he has a great plan.

Others believe we are just here and we have to do what we can.

I believe it’s just not that simple, that life is a riddle.

I believe a little of both, so I guess I’m in the middle.

There are those that are far to the left where they stay morning, noon, and night.

There are those that go in the opposite direction, they go all the way to the right.

The left and the right both have their agendas and neither will give a little.

Then here I sit on my fence, smack dab in the middle.

Some people work from dawn to dusk.

For others it’s playing from dusk to dawn that’s a must.

I like to work and play so I have no time to piddle.

I have to work and I love to play so I guess I’m somewhere in the middle.

Some people like to move in the fast lane others like to take it slow.

Some are very laid back while others are always on the go.

Some want to hang with the jet set while others just want to sit and whittle.

I go while I can and then sit for a little so that’s me resting in the middle.

Some people are always happy and others are always mad

Some will laugh at anything and others are always sad.

Some days it feels like I’m in a nursery rhyme, hey diddle diddle.

But you can find me where I always am in my spot in the middle.

In the court of public opinion there are those that feel they are the judge.

When judging what’s right and what’s wrong, they will never budge.

In this trail called life when asked for a conviction or an acquittal.

 You know where I stand . . . that’s right, I’m in the middle. 

STANLEY HENDRIX

10/27/2011

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