The storm has finally broken
We stand here in its wake
Battered, bruised, and weary
But we would not break
The quiet calm belies
The fragments left behind
A long road still ahead
Life’s pieces we will find
The dark, malicious threat
Lurks in the background still
But we have strength to fight
And beat this foe we will
We never would give up
With faith we know we’ll win
Claim victory in His power
And rise up strong again
No words, no thoughts, empty inside
Worries, feelings, can barely hide
Try to reach out, you know you should
Wrong things, wrong time, misunderstood
It’s okay, it’s just today
You won’t always feel this way
Jump in, get back into the game
You’re still so far from where you came
You really have good things to share
And people notice if you’re there
A low point means you’ve grown somehow
Things will start getting better now
Sunrise, sunset in the west
Prairie days of summer’s best
Cattle wrangling morn til night
Lay around the fire to rest
Short grass, tall grass in the wind
Dry dust rising round the bend
Underneath wide open skies
Upward, outward freedom send
Treasured, carefree nights in town
Lively dances, fiddle sound
Neighbors bonded near and far
Toughest friendships here are found
The times are ever changing
When is not the time for change?
Always growing, starting, ending
Things are different, time so strange
Treasured things slip by so fast
Hoped for things come by so slow
They say hurry up and wait but
Really you can’t ever know
What today is promised sure
Tomorrow may completely shift
Like a mirage it disappears
Into an atmospheric rift
Don’t give up though just because
Your plans change from what you knew
Your hope, your future is all planned
In the right time it will come true
I stepped out and I fell in
The ledge I trusted was too thin
I reached and got my fingers stepped on
I found out I was a pawn
I cannot show my pain to you
Since using others is all you do
But still it hurts me just the same
Like I’m the loser in your game
I see now how I was misled
And know what I will do instead
To let go of the pain I feel
And help the wounds recede and heal
