Coffee shops and books and tea
Remind me very much of me
And who I was so recently.
The world grows harder every year,
And penalties are more severe,
And life is realized right here.
Did you forget? I know I did
Nervously, I ran and hid
As was my habit, when a kid.
Who am I now? I become
A child no more, and in sum
I don't know the words, I hum
This day-to-day song without tune.
I feel I must learn truth here soon;
I remember well the moon
In parking lots, frost on the glass
Yet I need not yield the past
When future comes at me too fast.
Whate'er I felt in former days
When God revealed to me His ways
I need not cast far from my gaze.
He's the same each day I wake
And with every step I take.
My fear is gone for Mercy's sake
And I have sworn to be the one
To chase His will 'till I am done
And show the world until none
Are lost in coffee shops, in chains
Suffering change and growing pains
All for yesterday's selfish gains.
I am certain He is good--
Has made his point well understood
That though I suffer, yet I could
Be free and take each step once more,
Pass through the coffee shop's front door
Having won my daily war.
postscript
Oh to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be....