Please don´t go
I´m so afraid to lose you 
Before I really know you

Don´t walk away 
Although I know the pain´s 
So hard for you to bare

Love twists and tears us 
It dresses and it wears us
You look so gaunt and torn
So many faces you have worn

You´re in a hurting place 
Looking for some grace
Call out my name and I´m there
Dissolve all the shame and know that I care

Darkness chills 
You´re pulled so far inside
Just keep talking to me baby, I say

Icy glares and silent stares 
I can´t recognize your eyes
You´re cut off from the world
In every way

You tug at your T’
And mumble “just let me be”
I try to decipher
If your grumble means maybe

Phases sometimes faze us
And Jesus sometimes saves us
But sometimes it´s just you
Alone against the world
Harsh winds that blow, 
Testing the weight of each word

Your voice has changed 
Grown dark and deeply grained
Since your struggle with your loss

Let me gobble up the dark
And give you just a little spark 
Cry out the tears in my name
Release those bellied fears of shame

Like a cactus cry in the desert rain, 
Like a late night chat on a long night train
Like a deep yowl of a warrior´s cry
Or a mountain climber hanging from the sky
Like a cricket in the dark longing to sing
Or the humming flutter of a blackbird´s wings
Like a firefly longing to light again

© KARA JOHNSTAD
Album | Paths X
Artist | Kara Johnstad