Time teaches
My soul reaches
Out into the open air
To where peace dances in a lair
I am but your learning child
Nebuchadnezzar in the wild
I laugh now without a sound
The vibrations within, found
I arrive to the reason
Why by myself, a season
You were there
In the air, everywhere
Watching with your eyes
Not for me to recognize
For me to walk valleys on my own
Thoughts thinking I was alone
Loneliness to keep me company
Creative in mind, I had to be
Weakness thinking to feel
Strength came each time to heal
Fear I thought to overcome me
Come over fear, sit with me
I train, I know, as you gaze
Joyfully I cheer, me, I amaze
My conquests are yours for sure
No matter what I endure
You have always held my hand
I completely just didn’t understand
I cannot be coddled in moments of training
What will be left of me, remaining?
Of all to confess
The deepest to undress
I fear your trust in me
That greatness within, you see
You knew me before I began
Yesterday, today, to the end
So little of whom I am I know
Still I move for you, I go
There is no accepting of a fail
A world to no avail
In helping me to fully rise
That is within me to comprise
My training days have taught me so
Seasons alone are my time to grow
The stillness I must find
Even amongst trembles in mind
To feel alone is honoring you
In crowded rooms, who knew?
I am but to myself inside
You have taught me to hide
I laugh and dance to myself
No one there, no one else
Because you teach me so
You watch, you know
Your rod, your staff comfort me
A table before me
In awe of your endless works
A healing to every hurt
I was and never alone
I am but still a child, a little grown.
