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I remember the ancient days
When darkness ruled the heart When justice deceived itself Leaving the widows and childless With no comfort When the spirit of the age Sought to correct the wrong All day long Placing humanity in a cage Dressed in undefined hope By torturing the soul I remember too The night you came Offered yourself Not some plan To release this soul From flesh bound hopes It was easy to fall for you Yet I trembled I cried With joy of Your new residence Within my living Even now I turn away To glitter and sway To music screaming pain Only to remember your arms Ever embracing Where can I go There are no words That can express your presence Cleaning my cluttered house All-day long shaking this body Letting me rest When I view the morning light
Through these eyes of joy I rest in your arms ever so strong And take one more brisk breath of hope That this is the day we should announce to the world In words so pure and sweet That you are love itself Rushing into every heart Ready to meet Ready for the worlds to meet Here I crash, crumble and fall At your feet, at your feet I begin again with but a breath Looking at your life Looking back at me Here in the now There is no greater gain Than not sing one more frame Of thank you And fall again Into your arms of rest And rest Forgot to look into your eyes
As if I was meeting you for the first time Or not leaning over really close To catch your every word Nor enjoying the warmth of you Snuggling up within my space And forgetting You just want to be near Yes, I have ignored you taking time out of your living To enjoy my life Forgive my hearing your story As an addendum to mine Or ignoring your touch As if it were out of time And my clamoring to be seen When I forgot your face I heard your pain and saw your tears But hid my tears for shame Forgive me for turning my music up so loud I could not hear myself much less Seeing your dancing to my tune And see your oneness dressing my loneliness And for so trying to get noticed I forget to notice you. I have counted my own breaths Forgetting why I breathe Even how I breathe Watching your story unfold I was too busy to see it How it fit with mine Then you touch me again Ignoring the past Forgive me for letting you Experience the dark All alone Lost in it And my not even shouting in Nor listening for an echo Broken by your call Broken by your whimper And most of all Forgive me for not loving you Dedicated to the Jesus who has walked with me in the form of Linda for 53 years on her 76th birthday. I love you Linda! |
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