empty lake

“Empty Lake”
When you look upon the empty lake,
Where water once had been,
Does your heart grow its own emptiness
Its own final death
Did you ever look upon fish jumping in splendor
Or of the quiet duck within its nest
Did you try to paint the sun’s reflection
as it fell to sleep
Did you
Master each color and gleam upon the liquid glass
Creating your own reflected beauty

When you look upon the empty lake
Are you reminded of what once was?
Smiles shared
Tears well spent
Do you think of the long walks hand in hand
Or the twinkling of dreamy eyes
Do you ever think about the long nights holding me tight
as you whispered alls gonna be all right?
Do you remember the silent prayers sent just for you
The thoughts and dreams I had hoped for you?
The very world I had hoped to share with you?
Did you count down time till we met again?
just to embrace the joy of being together


Or do you not see the past but only the now?
Do you see the emptiness and lonely hole
The same hole within my own heart
The hole where no life dwells
Dry mud clinging to shriveled plants
Once a place for birth,
But now a lowly grave

My own heart is a dead lake
A pit for the dying
No longer does it shine
No longer is it a fountain of life
My dreams, the shriveled plants
My hopes, marked with the stench of rotting flesh
You took my life and dried it up
You stole my sunset,
My sun’s reflecting light
loosing you i lost my self
Like a part of me i never knew, now gone forever

Day by day
Moment by moment
i long for you
i try to forgett,
to simply walk away
but the memories are to strong, too dear to me
You were once my dream for life
the core to my very smiles
now you are simply a dream,
slowly and painfully drifting away into night's endless sleep

Standing here now,
alone but strong,
When you look upon the lake
Do you see the beauty of its grace
The beauty of endurance
The beauty of revival
Do you see God's beautiful creation given to you
to tell of your worth
to tell of hopes for better days

When I look upon the lake
I see a time of chance
A chance to start again
Move on
Live
When I look upon the lake
I see both old and new
I see a beauty beyond compare
Revival and strength
Gained not by brawn, though trials of the heart
The tears and wounds are but evidence of healing that slowly took place
though it hurt each moment,
the blessing of wisdom never creates emptiness
As once was this very heart

Though the lake be still dry and empty
No longer will it be filled with dead dreams and hopes
No longer will there be tears of sadness rained down upon its mud
No longer will wasted smiles cling to dry clumps
Nor will nights and days be spent cold,
There will be beauty and hope
Old memories will be washed away
Old pains will be forgotten.

When you look upon the empty lake,
Don’t you see the simple beauty?
But if you do not see the beauty,
The beauty I can see…
How can you see the beauty it soon will be?