A HAND IN MINE
Brain Injury Is: losing your faith in your belief system because you know that no God could allow such loss and pain.
- There is no God, I loudly claim,
- That would allow such loss and pain.
- This fact is true, I know for sure,
- There are these fates I must endure.
- From my cloud that fateful night,
- Just lying there in the light,
- "We're losing him," I heard them say,
- "He might not last another day".
- I could not see, I was alone,
- I had no fear of going Home.
- I didn't fade, it wasn't time,
- That's when I felt a hand in mine.
- I tried to see, but couldn't find
- The person standing by my side.
- He gave me strength, I don't know why,
- He said its not my time to die.
- He said there's still much work to do,
- He said there's people who love you too.
- He said, "Be strong, its not your time",
- That person there with hand in mine.
- My faith was shattered by a stroke,
- There is no God for me to choke.
- I'm sure He left me at that time,
- But who was there with hand in mine?
- The wife is gone, the business, too.
- Some friends are left, but just a few.
- I lost my car, I lost my home,
- No God could leave me this alone.
- And so one day with loaded gun,
- In my deer stand I had begun
- To make a plan to end it all,
- I picked a place where I could fall.
- I felt the gun up by my head
- But heard a voice that softly said,
- "Release your hand, it isn't time."
- Again I felt a hand in mine.
- There is no God I said before,
- But who can really know for sure.
- Whose hand was that that fateful night,
- That held me close there in the light,
- It wasn't God, how could it be?
- Didn't God abandon me?
- And 'bout that hand up in the tree
- Who took my gun and set me free,
- The voice that said it wasn't time
- Belongs to the hand that's holding mine.
Discussion, comments, or questions: Dave Cotton