I swear
If you took me back
I wouldn’t take even a second for granted
For all we go through in this life
For all the scars you can’t erase
I just can’t understand with a New York Sky above me
I need your glorious magnitude
Perspective when this life is too much to bare
Swallowing back my tears
I know I’ll soon have to leave again
But I wish there was a way for me to stay
I heard heaven is somewhere up there
You seem to hold the hope for us down here
At least for me
You draw me in
Your pull is so strong
And it’s too much to handle on this bus full of people
Misplaced
I know I am
I belong with you
A choir of Joshua trees
Reaching up
Giving praise to you
Taking pictures
“Home”
I know it’s not going to be enough
You take my heart and bring it up there with you
You leave me every time with nothing but this pain
And you have to know
It hurts a little bit more each time
The direction I’m going in is wrong
I know I need you
I need a Western Sky
To forever protect me
Because I can’t understand any of it with the sky I’m under now
Please lead me back to you
I won’t take a second for granted
Only when you are above me
I belong
By Christie Leigh Babirad, Long Island, NY
