Hope

He is Risen, Alleluia! Happy Easter!
"This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad!"

I didn't think the rain would ever stop 

Wasn't sure that Sun would come up

Unsure of the strength I possessed 

And though I'd quit searching  

You sought me out

Despite my weakness 

Despite my doubt

How can we say we love 

If it is nothing but selfish

Love and hate cannot both be on our tongues 

One cancels out the other one

Loving isn't a matter of flattery,

Of barren words 

Devoid of living 

Every word is an action in love 

Whose story develops in giving 

For who has lost themselves in the twistedness of existing 

Merely for the material and false praises of men 

Men who live for all that fades

Who only seek their own good

Leading to the untruth of what love really is 

For it is only in loving others without measure where loves true fire can burn 

Where  we find our identity as Children of the Light

The more we freely give 

The more our light shall shine

Selflessness and self interest cannot coexist 

For it is in self denial 

True virtue can effloresce 

Though man may claim to know love 

It is a delusion in itself 

True love can only be the fruit 

Of Truth within thineself

Hardly will they ever draw water from the same well 

logic and opinion 

Trading in our salvation 

For our momentary thrills 

Come on and throw your penny in,

see what time will tell

Our lives are not our own

For we are bound to one another 

In our joy and our sorrow 

We carry each other 

Our suffering we offer 

Our offerings uplift another 

And so in our bearing our cross 

We relieve the weight of our brother

From the perfection  demanded by a people 

Who know not their origin 

Whom know not their identity or forgiveness 

Because they are blinded by their cheap endeavors, truth has become foreign 

Forgetting we are of one body

We all will be judged by one truth

Whether we loved one another 

As we were told to

And only In our dying to this world 

Will we begin 

I didn't think the rain would ever stop 

Wasn't sure that sun would come up

Unsure of the strength I possessed 

And though I'd quit searching  

You sought me out

Despite my weakness 

Despite my doubt