Turn Your Face To Me

13 years ago...

i stood trembling before a young man
we vowed words of love, promises, and hopes
how little we understood what a lifetime meant
we closed the pages of our childhood

do our lives look the way we expected?
would 20 year old Eli and Lindsay be surprised 
at who 33 year old Eli and Lindsay have become?
would they be happy with what is?

things and people and places that were so important then
are now gone
replaced with things and people and places that are important
now

the old has died
the new is come

often we map out what we want our life will look like
but it hardly happens the way we plan
but we must lay down our maps and hopes
to pick up new ones 

graduation weekend

the first time in 9 years that we don't have a party to attend
a celebration of life left for someone else to frequent
instead Eli flies to Kansas
to say goodbye 
to grandparents
that have seen generations come and go
the grandfather that stood before us on our wedding day
to pronounce us "man and wife"

with something new 
comes the loss of something else
a seed dies
to spring up in life
the fall of man
has brought on this loss
we cannot imagine a way with out the lapse
a list of pros without the cons

memorial day

we honor the memory of those who have died 
to give us what we enjoy
death
for life

we forsake the past 
to move into the present
but it cannot be without pain

The fall, the fall, oh God, the fall of man
The fruit is found in every eye and every hand
Nothing there is nothing yet in truest form
We walk like ghosts upon the earth
The ground it groans

How long, how long will you wait
How long, how long till you save us all, save us all

Turn your face to me

The light, the light
The morning light is gone
And all that's left is fragile breath in failing lungs
The night, the night
The guiding night has come
Uniting lover with his bride
More precious than the dawn

How long must we wait

Turn your face to me

--Gungor