Let me alone to lie among the fallen leaves,
I’ll whisper my secrets into the earth one by one,
Hoping a seed from my heart will take hold,
And maybe then a child will grow,
Sprung from the tears off my lashes,
The song of the sorrow in my soul,
To take root upon the barren soil,
Like a miracle of forgiveness from endless toil.

I need you now calling from eternity,
I am needing the sun in the shadow of my dreams,
The air is thick into my lungs and I cry,
With fists buried deep and eyes searching the sky,
I have fallen into the mire at the edge of the world,
It is raining and flooding and I am ever sinking,
The water has deafened the sound of your voice and I cannot hear.

Save me from the drowning flood or I am forever lost,
I strain to hear you speak, anything, anything,
And when the flooding stops and skies pour out their light,
I will see the path I have come and the path I will take,
I will pull myself from the mud of my heartache,
I will run across the valley of my faith,
Though I grow weak and tired and my body may beg,
To rest among the leaves once again,
To converse with the shadows of the trees,
My spirit soars on till I fall at your feet,
And there I will plant my heart,
That it may take root in your hands,
Sprung from the tears off your lashes,
And the pain of your sacrifice,
That I may forever remain at your side,
And then I am yours…