Dear Children

What did you find?

Was it anything or was it nothing at all?

Was it close to your chest, inside your heart or further away from the start?

Forget what you thought, we're past that part.

I'm just hoping for something that makes us more than we are, more than we deserve. And what do we deserve?

Something far more than we've earned.

Is that what we deserve?

How can we move with yesterday's news, growing trees from the seeds in our own minds.

Who we've been with, what we've lived for.

Why the crying.

Why the shouting.

Well we've crashed this town and now we're coming back for more.

What will we do?

What more can we hope for?

Something new. Something bright. Something to turn around the night.

And rediscover something we lost in an all too familiar face.

Oh God, save me. Your hand in my hand.

From violence You've saved me.

And I trust in Your love.

You are my light, my saving grace.

Let's forget the night.

We're waiting for blue skies to come.

My faith rests in what I hope for. I'm certain of what I can't see.

These tired eyes have proven lies less appearent than the truth we believe.

Show me new lies so I can trust in what I see.

This flesh has become clean by the sight of the unseen.

What did you find?

Was it anything or was it nothing at all?

Was it close to your chest, inside your heart or further away from the start?

Forget what you thought, we're past that part.

I'm just hoping for something that makes us more than we are, more than we deserve. And what do we deserve?

I'm never leaving this house.

The sand is creeping in.

Neighbor, don't be a fool and build it on sand.

If all we do is run away from home, we will become the sand.

Neighbor, don't be a fool.

We write to you dear children.

For in His name's sake you are forgiven.

For in His name's sake you are not forgotten.