Sleepwalking
We look for pain to run its course
Then go gently back to sleep
Its intentions revealed in subtlety
Our weary souls to keep
Or maybe to revive us from
The slumber forced upon us
We sleepwalk from our births until
All love is stolen from us
Then (tears) are torn into our souls
Revealing life forsaken
Reduced to lives of waste and pleasure
Our hungry souls to waken
But who can fathom such a pain
Or welcome in to stay
No matter what it promises
I’ll bid it fast away
For pain has tortured long enough
Its talons sharp and long
It ripped from me my heart and soul
It stole my soul’s deep song
Or maybe it gives back to us
A chance to taste divine
To loose the chains of mundane fools
To drink the chaliced wine
To search with all our spirit’s heart
Thrust onward by our pain
To find the life that’s meant to be
Like sunshine follows rain
So pain will never run its course
Its journey without end
Our souls to stretch toward heaven’s rays
And with God’s soul to blend