Night Watch

Night Watch 1/15/2015 

Not every dream

Can come true

And not every prayer

Shall receive an answer. 

Sometimes we weep

More than we laugh

And sometimes we suffer

For what it seems like

No reason at all. 

But, If we are to learn

Then sometimes we must suffer

Even if we must swallow our swords

Unjustly. 

I know there is a God

And that he loves me

Perhaps even enough

To correct me

When I am wrong. 

As a parent teaches a child

I must be scolded

And awakened from my slumber

Shaken enough, to open my eyes

And see. 

He could have let me sleep

And he could have let me at ease

But he wanted more for me

Than I knew to ask.  

This world has its glitter

And this world has its fun

But there is so much more

Beneath the surface

Just waiting to be discovered. 

I was thrown out

Into the cold

And I was beaten by circumstances

I could not control.  

I learned about the other side

The kind that we avoid

Judged and discarded

Like trash in a can.

I learned to forgive

Even when I didn’t want to

And I even learned to smile

When my guts were falling out. 

It just might be

That life stays the same

And that some of the things I wanted

I will never have.

And it just might be

That even the cruel

May prosper

And never suffer. 

But even in that happens

It may not be a blessing

Because many a man

Shall sleep walk his way

Into hell. 

Let the cruel be cruel

And let the proud be proud

Sleeping straight through

The night of Christ.