HOW MANY TEARS ARE ENOUGH


How many tears will it take
To fill the basin of sorrow?
How many nights of weeping
Will give way to a brighter tomorrow?

How many memory filled days
Will finally bring peace of dreams of the night?
How many heart beats will I know
Before I feel things are somehow are right?

Will there ever come a time
When I no longer miss you?
How many hours must pass
Before my hurting time will be through?

Will there ever be a time
When I shall smile with pure pleasure
Or feel, when others speak your name,
That I have not lost a precious treasure?

How many tears will fall
Before I finally drown from the pain
That keeps me bound to grief
And will I know peace once again?

Will heaven and earth pass away
Before there will be no thoughts of you?
Will I ever reach the time when
I recognize I'm me, no longer part of two?

I'm spent and tired.
I miss your voice today.
I listen, but I hear nothing ~
Because you have gone away.

How many nights will come and go
That I will fall into dreamless sleep
Or will I wait for you to come home or,
When I wake, I can smile instead of weep?

I long for a visitation from you,
With words I need to hear
In a calm and soft whisper,
That there is nothing now to fear.

My prayer:
How much time, my precious Lord,
Will pass before I'm through
Hurting and aching in my soul?
How much time and tears will do?

Father God, hear my plea.
Help me make it through this day,
To spend the love that still burns inside of me
Even though he has gone away.

© Sandra Griffin
Author of "God in My Attic"
In memory of Harley Griffin