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
It hurts to keep on falling down
To spend time getting off the ground
I wish for perfect, no mistakes
But now I see the time it takes
Until the skill is learned and found
It hurts to try the best I know
Then pangs of judgement haunt me so
I want to always call it right
But I can’t tell from this new height
Always the certain way to go
It hurts to walk in paths so new
Break in a trail where thickets grew
I look for markers of the way
But I can’t in the safe place stay
And reach the place I should be too
Sometimes it feels so hard to do
But the only way forward is through
Waves crash over me
My boat is lost at sea
Winds gust to and fro
And I with them go
Skies so dark close in
Can’t see where to begin
Hopelessly off course
No way to reverse
Yet there is a light
Piercing through the night
It will guide my boat
If I can stay afloat
I can turn the sail
So wind does not prevail
The compass still will show
Which way I should go
A broken hope of taken dreams
The loss of worlds we make in dreams
The truth I thought that I could trust
Turned out be mistaken dreams
The world is crumbling round my heart
I fall beneath my shaken dreams
I vow to never dream again
Bury the past’s forsaken dreams
My heart stands fast, will not let go
Its broken shards awaken dreams
An avalanche of endless walls
Everywhere I turn
So many climbs, so many falls
Will I ever learn
A false façade of fake success
Tempts me to keep on
All hollow – break through and regress
Just another con
How bleak life looks if there’s no hope
To escape these walls
Reduced each day to try to cope
With the pain of falls
But there is still a lifeline rope
Listen when He calls
