Light up the Way

June 28, 2011. © Talon Truitt Cherry, All rights reserved

Last night the lightning
Put me to sleep
The thunder rolled down
Without sound, not a peep
The rain sang a lullaby
So endlessly
The trees joined the chorus
And made it complete
I think it went something like this...

Here’s to the nights
That you lay awake wrestles
And ponder the thoughts in your head
Here’s to the times
That your life becomes stress less
The best of us still end up dead

Don’t break to the sounds
That we play you this evening
Just close your eyes and sway to the wind
Our truth right now
Is not so deceiving
It all works out right in the end

Here’s to the nights
That you’re still alive
Don’t waist thoughts
On days of the dead
Breaking the silence
We are so alive
Singing the things left unsaid

There is a road
That winds through the darkness
The light shines on everything missed
A fist full of anger
And no sign of kindness
Adding your name to its list

There is a place
That escapes all the madness
The sadness is nothing you’d miss
The bliss of the simple
The voice of the mindless
As timeless as true loves first kiss

Now watch my children
The light please don’t miss it
That second of flash and its gone
The things that we sing of
You see in an instant
But the song of our story rolls on

There is a road
That winds through the darkness
The light shines on everything missed
The bliss of the simple
The voice of the mindless
The kindness of lover’s first kiss

Last night the lighting
Put me to sleep
The thunder rolled down
Without sound, not a peep
The rain sang a lullaby
So endlessly
The trees joined the chorus
And made it complete
And I think it went something like this