Saved

If you had known how close you came

To making me forget my name

If you could in a vision see

An alternate reality

Where we all fell, each one by one

Like autumn leaves, our lives succumbed

If you could know the cutting knife

You gave to those whom you gave life

You'd be inclined, I hope and pray

To claim the blame, to change your way,

But not so now. You cannot see

This alternate reality.

Because we fought, because we fight

We won, we win, through Jesus' light

The darkness gone, it cannot stay

For we have love, and come what may

The life we have we will return

A sacrifice, but not to burn,

We will remain, we will proclaim

That Holy, Righteous, Precious Name.

A Gift

Lonely Friend

Yesterday I saw the winter
Melting down
Into the spring
And he looked up at me
With his weepy eyes
And said I love you
Please give me one more try

And so I gave it
And he came up again
With whirling snow
And harsh cold winds
It looked like anger
So I began again
To let the spring melt
His cold hard heart

And by this morning
He was almost gone
And I looked down
And said farewell
And he looked up at me
Again with weepy eyes
And said I know it's time
I'll say farewell

It's been the summer
Ive missed winter so
His frosty gaze,
His patient glow
sent him a letter
So he'll came back to me
By touching treetops
The auburn leaves

So in the autumn
He'll surely come again
His heart still cold,
his strength renewed
He'll cast his tendrils
of frost to tree tops
He'll blow
The twirling leaves
To their demise

When I see anger
I will remind the wind,
Which whistles by
And brings the chill
That winters time will end
Just as it did before
And spring will come again
To warm his soul

But on that one day,
The winter calmed himself,
And for me gave
A gentle snow
It settled down upon
Every branch and blade
It's stark white purified
The whole landscape

He is my lonely friend
His life is bitter
But I will stay
Although he's cold
I know his heart has
A seed of greatness
I know his heart has
A seed of love.

Eclipse

The moon didn’t know he was being predictable

When he decided to wear something different tonight.

He didn’t know that everyone would notice him finally

He’d forgotten the necessary steps to fame.

Oh, here and there someone would light their eyes

On his bright handsome face, or perhaps only a sliver.

But never had his audience truly gazed with such wonder-

Admiration was lifting his spirits to great heights.

Then… oh then, he realized that he was red.

His face had not a sliver of the pure or bright

He could no longer see the sun at all,

And he himself had turned into a shadow.

He was satisfied though, for all the faces of all the people

Replaced the sun quite well- but lo! The sun came back

And the faces of all the people turned away again.

And he was even lonelier than before.

The Story We’ve Imagined

Can we find all the constellations and make new ones in our minds, before our tired eyes begin to close and dreams carry us away ‘til morning?

And when I wake up from this dream and find you never were here, will you promise to come someday, so I know our love is true?

Those angel wings remind me of the light that shines in your eyes in the yesterday of tomorrow; can you glance at me once more so I can feel its radiant warmth?

And when I fall and finally awake in darkness, and shiver back to sleep, can you put your strength around me, and give me calm and peace?

And when daytime comes again and I toil and forget you, will you show your face in a cloudy sky and remind me to find the end of another day?

And as years go by, if we still be apart, I ask one more thing for my lonely heart: Never disregard the story we’ve imagined, for it may be the only story we were meant to tell.