Whatever Calls Inside You

Original Picture Taken By Theodora Ashcraft
(Edited by me.)

Whatever Calls Inside You 

1/15/14

Take the pain and make it music,

Take the tears and make it song;

Write the colors of the rainbow

Into worlds where we belong.

Take your fears and fill the canvas,

Take your doubts and fill the page;

Write your worries down upon it

As it ripples from each stage.

Take the ache and make it stories,

Take the hurt and make it light;

Write the things you can't remember,

Though they haunt you every night.

Take your cries and fill the darkness,

Take your dread and fill the miles;

Write the words beneath the surface

Of our weariness and trials.

Take the dark and make it shudder,

Take the black and make it real;

Write the hope that keeps you going

Through the terrors that you feel.

Take your past and fill the future,

Take your steps and fill the road;

Write to show the path you're walking -

Where you've been to lift that load.

Take the noise and make it silence,

Take the bound and make it free;

Write the heart behind your smiles

Where you're hiding broken pleas.

Take your loss and fill the empty,

Take your grief and fill the void;

Write in sorrow steeped with truthful

Not as something to avoid.

Take the year and make it moments,

Take the day and make it flow;

Write whatever calls inside you

With a story most don't know.

Take your dreams and fill the oceans,

Take your hopes and fill the skies;

Write to tell the world of morrows

Where they need not feed the lies.

Take the joy and make it color,

Take the hope and make it sing;

Write the life that finds belonging

In the words that others bring.

Take your life and fill the weary,

Take your faith and fill the weak;

Write the grace that God has given

And the truth we long to seek.

~ZA

Copyright © 2014 Ophelia M. Flowers