Quietness

Sometimes when I’m quiet you think I’m upset
But I just need some private time to be by myself
To listen to the thoughts I have and try and sort them out
To figure out where I’m headed and learn something no doubt

A lot of times I’m talking just to listen to what I say
Wondering what the day might bring and the part that I will play
I think He has a sense of humor to let me think like this
Why can’t I just be left alone in my bit of quietness

I’m left to think about the news of the day both happy and sad
Some of it makes me smile but most makes me mad
I look up at the sky and ask Him why does He let it go on
Why all the pain and suffering from what seems like dusk to dawn

The shootings in Colorado and lives that were laid to waste
The recent fire in a little house that in my mouth leaves an awful taste
The angel that rose to heaven because of careless play
One who was too young to ponder where life would lead on another day

At times I get so angry that I shake my fist at Him and shout
Please stop the madness that abounds and take away my doubt
I want so much to care and love and bring peace to a warring world
But all I see is bloodshed and hate towards a flag unfurled

Religions become the battleground for those who just don’t care
Someone walks into a building brandishing a gun and points over there
Where the bullets fly and the bodies fall no one is privy to know
And in the end a child pays for all the sins that we bestow

I run around in circles trying to figure it all out
Crying in pain because no one talks, they only shout
I cry for the ones who can’t and pray for the ones that do
I want so much to help them all to bring a life shiny and new

But I am only one person, a single, living, being
One who sits in her private space wondering, hearing, seeing
One little voice in a broken world that wants to sing out loud
To be heard raising a song of praise that will fly above the cloud

Singing a song to tell the world that everything is okay
A melodious tune that quiets the soul and brings peace to every day
A word or a phrase that brings to mind what is in each and every heart
That now is the time to begin again, to make a brand new start

Quietness you ask as I sit and ponder about the world today
What’s wrong with a bit of quietness like the sun on a rainy day
Or the stars at night as they shine so bright and light the path I trod
To let me know all is right in the world and all is right with God