Broken Chord

Broken chord. warrior lost.

I heard the news, far away
I was young. You were younger.
I wonder if I could have said something.
Would it have changed a thing?

Can we go back?
To the yesterday...
When you were still here. Before you got away.
When innocence still had a place.

Playing in the fields
Freedom as we ran
Unhindered by the circumstances--the ones that
would come soon
Yet in childlike simplicity we didn't know

I wish that I could see you
just one last time
give you a playful punch
make fun of your awful mudpie

Now I sit here in silence
Thinking on my day
the day you could have had
but you ran away. why did you run away?

I wish...
i could have been there
in the darkness
when night came with haunting thoughts
maybe i could have helped
to shift the decrees of death over your life.
maybe i could have challenged you
to stand up and fight
pleading with you--that today, there may be someone
who needed your life.

someday we'll embrace
in that place
where the grief and the pain
no longer grip your heart
no longer numb your ability to dream, to believe
where the tears that covered your face
are finally wiped away
now only peace...
finally you have ears to hear the song--
the one He is singing over you,
the one that has always been just for you....

If only you would have learned how to dream.
If only you would have learned how to receive--
love.
I wish you learned how to be loved.

I wish you would have stayed.
Why did you run away?