Words and music by Sonni Quick
copyright 2015
SECOND TIME AROUND
Dedicated to Bryan
Find your life
gather up the pieces
Heal a broken life
forget the pain
slowly time erases
Put it back together – again
in a way that shows the world
now who you are
learn to be a friend
to those who know your worth
is so much more
than you were outside that locked door
Take the time
to think before you act
Reach and hold the hand of those
that reach their hand toward you
Don’t let your old ways
decide how you react
Use anger in a better way
to teach the chosen few
Life dealt a crushing blow
to the soul of one so young
No one to protect you
from the time your life began
It’s not easy
to be a different man
It takes more courage
than simply wanting life to change
don’t find a single reason
or try to place the blame
or the effects of all your causes
will come full circle back to you
if you react the way you learned
that action will undo
and scatter all the pieces
you’ll be lost again
Remember
No matter what life gives you
you’re stronger than before
using all your past mistakes
to learn and grow a little more
Did you know the man inside
deserves a better life
and when you finally get to walk
out through the open door
don’t look back
that’s in the past
this new life that you’ve found
is the second time around
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I probably haven’t opened my email yet. I usually check it every few days. I’ll go check.
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Sonni, this is so beautiful.
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Thank you Maesha
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I have finished rewriting the first chapter and it is posted, along with your letter. The second chapter will be parts of about 8-10 of his letters since 2009. Most prison books tell about how bad there lives were and try to shock people with how bad they were and how they changed, but want I want to come across is that he is a human with a heart trying to survive in a place as close to hell as possible. Did you get my email?
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Yes, and I responded. Odd. I wondered why I hadn’t heard back from you.
Will check to see if anything happened to my response.
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Nothing out of the ordinary. Perhaps my response went into your spam?
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Hi Sonni, I did the first four pages for you this last half hour. A PDF is emailed to you. can you let me know if you got it? (and please don’t shoot me!)
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Thanks – I’ll go pull it up.
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