If I Didn’t Believe

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Written on March 27, 2025

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If I didn’t believe
	Nothing on earth would remember
		The heart of me… why I breath
Colors of laughter, golden pieces
Of a light, shadowed by time
A light, softly spelling out a smile
A light, more potent than sunshine

If I didn’t believe
	Where would all the pieces of me be?
		My heart and soul, my spirit’s story
In tear stained glass, embraced
By the feelings who shatter my life
Even though I know, when all is made right
His healing will survive my worst fears,
The darkness of midnight’s desire

If I didn’t believe
	Life would be all shadows and dread
		Spinning words of doubt and despair
While my tears flood the darkness
Stirring up the grief torn mists
Suppressing the feelings of a song
Blending into the melancholic poetry
A deafening storm, all edges and lost
Like the ache of a prayer, before it is formed

If I didn’t believe
	Where would I go to find purpose?
		Even the sunshine couldn’t see
Beneath the shadows, the challenge
Feeding the spirit, a growing light
Reflecting the source of wisdom, the source
Of every life…

If I didn’t believe
	I wouldn’t ever see
		The hope that is living in me
This hope is the reason I am content to see
Beneath the cross, that place where I leave
All my burdens, all my grief
Remembering the Son who died for me
So that I, once blind, could finally see…

He is the love that made me free
He is the light that shined for me
He is the reason I’ll always believe!

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