The Day I Stole Faith & Honey

Lost and anchored to the bottom of the sea Poor poor lonely me

The day you destroyed faith and honey

Life put on pause With senseless cause The day you destroyed faith and honey

The blame and shame I’ve held for thee For far too long paralyzed my memory Today just as yesterday That day you destroyed faith and honey

Faith is trust beyond proper evidence That no matter how far or long or wide We have the strength to endure the moments that can't be broken. Those moments when honey stops flowing

To me you were my honey Through loss, lessons, and money But through all that sifting, sorting and shoving There remains the day you stole faith and honey

Life clicked and clattered Up, through, and around Moving so far beyond the mountains You’d think it no longer mattered But the steam rolls on Leaving thick dark clouds of what was beautiful But now shattered

In the haze I have choked on pain Both mine and yours forever Not realizing that I stopped time altogether The day I destroyed faith and honey

Don’t look too close You may see the ugliness Of guilt regret and sorrow The things I wish I could say, I’m sorry The time wasted aging as you got younger

Mirror mirror on the wall Whose heart was so feared? Let me stare Until this light is shared Love so pure it shunned itself from itself and therefore all others

Please forgive me for not looking For being afraid that I might find The beauty that was always there All this time And the truth that I too stole my faith and honey

Hope is the poor man’s game of faith Leaving us stranded to wish upon a star That power will return through someone else’s arms So matter not to thee but to me There’s faith these words will reach above

They say hind sight is twenty twenty But perhaps by then You too will come to realize My heart was and is always with you I just couldn’t see it in my own eyes.