To Know and Be Known

I’ve forgotten all the dreams You planted in my heart

Of love and unity- it’s all coming apart

Is this how it’ll be all my life?

People parting in amnesia and strife

I want to fly to another time

Where we would gaze into Your eyes

And we would run hand in hand

Into Your fire

I need to know someone

I need to love someone

I need someone know who I am

I need someone to love who I am

To know and be known, to love and be loved

Help me believe there’s such a thing as love these days.

Our faces are there but the love seems to decay

We all walk away

I need community

For some sense of sanity

Change comes and then we go

Will memory suffice to keep me running?

Can someone please come back

To this place I have fallen- pick me up
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it's strange. the feeling of lonliness while being in a crowded room. How I can know so many people yet still feel alone.

God, help me to get up. Help me to shift my eyes off of myself. I know that the key to my freedom is to look beyond myself. But it's so hard to look beyond that. It's so hard to look beyond where i'm hurting. It's so hard to leave those things at the cross and follow you.

These are old demons I thought I had conquered. Or perhaps, I just ran away from them, hoping they'd never find me. I guess it's time to face them up head on. At least that's what I say. I keep running each time, because everytime I try to fight these demons, I end up hurt. Everytime I try to tend to my wounds, it just rips them open.

I need freedom.
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thanks, jaeson