Keep the Faith

Along the journey's way,

I learned I had to keep the faith,

even standing out in the rain,

just try to hold on...

for the sun.

And the treacherous path

wound around danger and distraction,

all to keep me from my goal.

The road was long and rough,

but, worth it in the end of the journey

to begin a new one.

All that kept me going was faith,

that belief beyond all evidence that

I was going the right way,

getting closer everyday.

I kept the faith, deep in my heart,

sometimes in my hunger 

it was my only food...

I kept going, sometimes to rest

along the way, but always 

moving nearer to you.

I watched the signs,

I counted the portents and wonders

I saw in the world; 

I'll tell you about them one day,

and how I kept the faith though 

they were ominous and signaled the end.

But I survived the apocalypse, twice,

to find you, the end of the world be damned.

I had to find you, all those days I 

looked for you in the waves from the beach,

all those nights I stared up at the stars

wondering if you saw them too,

that we might be connected by the face

of the moon...but alas, nothing, but,

I kept the faith, I kept coming.

And one day I found you and how terrifying

the choices of jumping in,

or the choice of walking away just knowing...

There was only one choice that kept the faith,

and so I jumped into this life 

where we know each other

and love each other, and every day

I will keep the faith

because it brought me to you.