Five, Night

Dearest heart that had been lost
I have not seen you for some time
The rays of sun that light the dust
Will make for joys that reach sublime.

In the journey long since tread
On the road that never ends
The feelings of impending dread
Seemed to be around each bend.

Lost in time a simple key
Seemed too far for me to grasp
I could not live with all the guilt
And shame that hissed just like an asp.

I floundered in the desert wastes
Scorched by unforgiving stars
Beat by beasts and men alike
We could not grasp just what was ours.

I dare not name the deeds gone by
We could not find a way to breathe
And living also seemed a chore
And some of us now gone.

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Five, Day

They rode on winds that angels breathed
and glowed with light from streets of gold
I could not say just where they went
Perhaps they just will not grow old.

Four, Night

There seems too much to do
Now that I’m awake
Perhaps it really was a drug.

Four, Day

I couldn’t even say
all the gears that turn
reaching for a light
I feel some parts just burn.

I couldn’t even feel
The parts I thought I would
fumbling in a darkened hall
I hear a single step.

Three, Night

I am tired in my bones
and yet the whole thing just goes on
Christ have mercy now.

Three, Day

The school of love will leave its mark
and this we know to be quite true
As we wait to here those words,
“Yes, I really do love you.”

Two, Night

Help has come in strange strange places
Where I never thought to look
and often where I’d never go
If left alone myself.

Two, Day

I call to thee
the one who has not faltered yet
and in the fire as I burn
here my dying whisper now.

Clinging to the source of life
Can feel like grabbing on a ship
As it swiftly carries on
Pounding you with every wave.

Even though it save your life
If you cannot yet come aboard
You will be a battered mess
If you reach the shore.

I call to thee
who saved my soul
save my life as well
Let redemption be in full till the trumpets blow.

Do not let the stones cry out
Give me life that I may shout
Hearing finding seeing how
The angels go their way.

Would you see me in the ground
Then I am dead and none can stay
And would you give one word of life
I would be remade today.

I call to thee
who heard my cry
and hears the cries from desert climes
Oh one who hears I wait.

One, Night

Swift falls the father’s rod
And in the snapping is the thing
Now I lay me down.

One, Day

Let me not forget
The telling hist’ry I have lived
Memories can be deceived
In all the usual ways.

But marching on I take my step
And leaning on the air I rise
So the hope eternal springs
And now I dream a vict’ry dies.

Remember soul how you were kept
And how He came down in that hell
Fire coursing through your nerves
Your screaming could not ring the bell.

It is time to turn the heart
That monster not so locked inside
Holy Father hear my prayer
And rip away the past that died.