Smile

This is just so unlike us,

Hide and seek, but I wonder

When I’ve got nothing but

My aching soul,

Heart hiding something,

Will you find me,

Bring me back to life

And throw a stranger

An unexpected smile?

Hold On

When your dreams all fail,

And it’s always nothing,

I will hold on.

Frame by frame, full speed ahead,

And if I tell you

My heart said “This time, no”,

Have you got it in you?

When your love goes to waste,

You still have all of me

And you and I will be alright

And ghosts will flicker from view.

Wait

Some days, when I’m awfully low,

I would leave crisp note footprints

Across my lifeline, broken tragedy,

The most beautiful light

Could put right what I got wrong

And I’ve just got to wait it out.

Go

(Currently been playing around with song found poems, where I jump around from song to song and use lyrics, putting in some of my own words to pull it all together.)

I have made mistakes,

Running through speeding cars

With a real flare for excuses

But everything’s just wonderful.

With my hope torn apart,

I’m young again,

Too young to bear the weight

Of your cruel lies.

The moment I said it,

The swelling rage in your eyes

I try to see clearer,

So I’ll say goodnight and go.

Sand

I was a pile of sand on the beach,

Formless, unidentifiable along the seashore

But the Creator walked by, stopped down

And lovingly molded me by His design.

I was beautiful, admired by every passerby

But I looked to them for my worth,

Sought gain and happiness and I changed,

Bits crumbling off and others added on.

The Creator let the waves wash over me

And all I had become was torn down

And I helplessly lay scattered by the sea,

Ugly, gritty sand, not worth glancing at.

The Creator looked across the empty beach

And smiled at the broken, humbled sand,

And He shaped me into something new.

Pure Lamb

I was faithless,

Chasing desires and dreams

Selfishly, seeking my own

And yet you, pure lamb,

Walked down the street

Among my dark sins

Towards the stone altar

That my name was

Deeply carved into

And you died for me

While I lay in ashes

Of stubborn disobedience.

And you took my

Hand as I wept

And you, now risen,

And I, now redeemed,

Danced together with joy.

Fearful Waters

The waters seem so foreboding,

Threatening to come crashing down

And flatten me in the sinking sand

But then my eyes were opened

To the reality behind the mirrors.

The waters put on a brave front

But the truth was completely opposite;

To the core, the waters tremble

With the greatest fear of God.

Not strong as it would tell me,

Not clever as it tries to appear

And so I need not fear it.

My Father is stronger than

The cowardly, slinking waves.