If I Held a Candle

If I held a candle while the cold and dark wind blew To light the way along for someone I barely knew If I held a wise mans hands and listened very still To know the things he knows. The things I never will If I held a baby and rocked it through the night To feel a piece of heaven while I held that child so tight If I held them until they took that final breath To comfort and try to ease the dawning of their death If I held the lips that kissed the hands of fate To feel the pain and burden of all who passed the gate If I held the answers to make some rhyme or reason To meet the very one who makes it another season If I held a plow to plant upon the hardened earth a seed To grow tall. Bloom. And millions would it feed If I held a ladle filled with water from deep within the well To quench the thirst of all who come to sit for a spell If I held a prayer an tried to always keep the faith To show acceptance and like all the others wait If I held a heart within my grasp just so To offer up my all only to see it go If I held and touched a place deep down there inside To once again take the culprit on yet another ride If I held on hard and flew into the night To keep holding on with all my strength and might If I held up to the light all of my mistakes To realize how many and they were mine to make If I held an ear to listen to all the people talk To watch one by one as out the door they walk If I held and read all the books of the world To learn so much for that little tiny pearl If I held a brush to paint such a pretty picture for the eye To please all the onlookers as thy aimlessly pass by If I held a pen to write a thousand words for all to see and hear To keep my soul grounded as it soars through the air If I held my breath as I'm laid to rest on the mounded heap To own all I've sown and what harvest there is to reap If I held a loom to weave a million dreams come true To awaken watching angels traversing the sky so blue If I held the wisdom to know Gods plan for me To know he sees all my faults and then still grant me peace Amen Copyright © by Scarlett Anderson