And So It Goes

It's always in the eyes that gaze

A marker from too many days

So distant, vacant, far away

You can't mistake that look they say

It's in the eyes the story’s told

And in the soul where blood runs cold

Yes it's the eyes that always tell

Of too much time spent living hell

You stand the line you take the blow

And not a tear can ever show

You are the rock you cannot flee

Your punishment is that you see

And as the searing scar is made

Forevermore the shadows fade

It was a time of painful light

That gave us all too much of sight

I sing a song of man’s lament

For all the sacrifices spent

And ask the choir recall a hymn

For those whose sight is still so grim

And so the endless struggle goes

Forever now, the harshest blows

As canyons echo to the sound

That terror makes when death is found

And though the conflicts will not cease

Seems there's no profit found in peace

Too many never recognize

The truth that burns inside their eyes

© 3/26/2007 Russell Robison

Delta Blue—Hallowed Ground