Life’s puzzle pieces, scattered round

One false move knocks them to the ground

I can’t decipher how they fit

Just when I think that this is it

A piece falls out – the puzzle’s split

It’s back to pieces, scattered round

There’s colors jumbled everywhere

A mess of green and blue up there

Small bits like flowers on the side

Or maybe birds – I can’t decide

What pictures in these pieces hide

With colors jumbled everywhere

Some days things seem to click in place

A pond, a path, a smiling face

But others seem like such a mess

Disorder, chaos, and distress

Dark shapes that I could only guess

Just how they seemed to click in place

But then again, what would life be

Without search and discovery?

It’s funny how falling off of a cliff

Does not always happen in one moment swift

Sometimes you don’t know that you started down

Til the last bit of sliding when you hit the ground

And everything hurts, and everyone’s gone

You’ve plunged into darkness, can’t see to go on

It’s funny how falling off of a cliff

Is sometimes only a feeling, as if

The world is crumbling from under your feet

When really it’s only shifting your seat

And maybe the landscape contracted or grew

But you’re still on top, if you can push through

Seems like life just spins too fast

I barely duck as things fly past

I swing and hit, can’t even see

The targets where each ball should be

I’m thrown off balance more each time

And each day, plans turn on a dime

This onslaught has no end in sight

All I can do is stand and fight

Seems like life just rocks the boat

So much I hardly stay afloat

The waves slash in over the rail

Leaks spring faster than I can bail

Too dark to tell if I’m on course

Just face into the storm’s full force

While pulling through and pressing on

All I can do is wait for dawn

Victory comes from hardest fights

Dawn breaks after darkest nights

Faith can every mountain move

We’re more than conquerors through love