new song

it's like,

the lyrics to the song you keep forgetting,

but you hum new ones because,

some songs were only ever sung once,

with people you don't even know now.

and though they are no longer with you,

there's an emptiness where they once were,

a spot in your heart still waiting to be filled.

it's the way

you search every face you pass on the street,

and when you're in certain cities you walk by places

that make it hard to breathe.

 it's the way you feel constantly,

as if there is someone missing.
you keep looking

around, hoping and yet dreading it'll be 

their eyes you'll meet in the face across the room

but then your heart sinks as you remember,

they are no longer there.

some songs are meant to be hummed in the 

dead of night when you fear you're losing 

your mind, when sleep never seems to come,

when the melody keeps playing in your head and

your heart feels like a heavy weight in your chest.

some songs are given new lyrics with the days

that pass by replacing who you were with who who

you are now, and though it's painful 

there is freedom when you realize; 

who you've been is not who you 

have to continue to be.

it's like,

the new song He puts inside of you, 

and the words now aren't of pain and sorrow,

but joyful praise.
it's the melody of pure freedom,

you breathe it in as you learn to surrender with 

each exhale all the lies the enemy has told you,

and He replaces each one 

with His perfect truth.