More than just a simple gal

Hi, my name is Val
but I’m more than just a simple gal
Yea I speak, read and write
But can I live, love and laugh
Can I stay positive
among all the negativity
Can I stand firm
as I’m held in mere captivity
Am I able to learn
not to give in to life’s decay
Let the current take me away
where I will suffer, hate and cry
Let the dust penetrate my eye
cloud my vision
can’t avoid a collision
and it forces an incision
through my stomach
then shiver as the temperature
brings me down.
But this isn’t my decision.
So I cannot let this overtake me
What’s best for me to undertake?
It’s whatever makes me happy
not what aches me and leaves me sappy
So I’d rather go down town
walk through a war with no weapons
but I’ll have a bullet proof vest on
cause my name is Val
and I’m more than just a simple gal
cause Thy rod and Thy staff
they comfort me.
cause You’re my rock,
my sword, my shield.
cause there's a time to rest,
to forget about all this mess
that plagues our lives
and traps our minds
but then we wake up
and tend to make up
for yesterday's loses,
if only we would just
leave it up to Him up above,
if we must, our wear to dust,
white as a dove,
clean for tomorrow's gain.