Fathom

Can you fathom how lonely it was

This empty room

Where absent bodies meant

Ghosts could pull you in

So easily?

Oh yes

Frightening memory

Of that time at the coast

When I shared how my father’s ghost

Wrapped arms about me

Telling me to stay

Day after day after day

All alone

You tried to help me

You tried to get me away

Why have I made you the villain of the piece?

But sadly there are things we only see

After travelling so much further down

The road to me

These ghostly shadows pull on me

Telling me how life will never be safe

And that its only by an act of grace

That I am still alive

Hanging by a slender thread

That threatens to drop me

Into pits of hell

Where monsters of fear ravage me

How to find the light of love

That will pull me home

How to trust that this time

I can rest with you just a little while

Before your light is once again

Stolen from me