Chapter Seven: Another Poem

A Prayer

There's a desert

There's a desert far across the world

And in that desert

In that desert 'cross the world

Someone walks.

Someone walks

Someone walks in that desert 'cross the world

And each stride burns

Each stride burns like fire

But they keep walking

And they'll keep walking 'til they're done.

'Cause rain comes to every single corner of the earth

Every broken soul will get a chance to look up high

And feel a rush of creation they haven't felt since birth

The rains will fall, and forgiveness, sweet forgiveness, it will rise.

The person walking

The person walking hasn't stopped

'Cause if they stopped, well...

If they stopped, they'd never get to where they're heading

And where they're heading is so green and good.

Where they're heading is so very green and good.

'Cause every face will get the chance to kiss a summer breeze

It'll come when you least expect it, it'll leave again just as fast

But when you're left on a hillside, left crying on your knees

The sun will shine, so give forgiveness, good forgiveness, a chance.

I don't know if we'll get there

I don't know  if it's real

But I know that it's worth it

Even if I don't know what I feel.

I know that this is better

Than anything else

So here's a glass to good weather

And a glass to your health.

'Cause a star or two is shining above our tangled heads

Everyone deserves to use a meadow for a bed

The flowers keep us safe, my dear, of that I have no doubt

The smell of earth and you tell me forgiveness wins this round.