Baci n. 07

Baci n. 07
"Til I loved, I did not live enough."
E. Dickinson

I always thought I was living my life,
That I, by carpe diem, was defined,
That I sucked all the marrow from life's bones.
Believed I was living the envious dream,
Free from all constraint and every care;
Unquestioned hero of a life well lived.

I saw around the world how others lived
As I followed the path of a rover's life,
Loving with a ne'er-do-well's thoughtless care.
I believed I was by freedom defined
And never imagined another dream
Would leave my own empty but for the bones.

See; she changed me, to the core of my bones;
Changed how I saw the life that I had lived;
Replaced it with a more infinite dream.
She lived a very diff'rent kind of life,
Driven by a diff'rent and greater care,
Step for step the same, but by God defined.

I'd never questioned how I was defined
Until I saw my life as skin and bones;
A soulless traveler of selfish care.
I told you that I thought that I had lived
Not realizing it was an empty life
Because I did not believe in God's dream.

This woman awakened me from my dream
And shared with me how her life was defined;
How Jesus Christ had given her, her life.
How I loved her, this stupid sack of bones,
How love made me question how I lived
And how much I had never thought to care.

She changed all of that, and now I do care.
Through love I found my faith; through love a dream,
And see that I have never my life lived.
The road by her love and God's will defined
Has given spirit'al flesh to these bones
And given me a higher call to life.

I lived a sad life with never a care
Beyond these old bones. Now she's changed my dream
And God's re-defined how my life is lived