Listen to the Voice of the Water

My love, where is your hand?
For the dawn comes only once each day,
And to ageless skies a difference does not make.
Seasons come, seasons go,
But my love for you fades not-it grows.
No longer can I bear to wait
For you to become my bride.

Now the time has come at last
For me to properly ask
For your hand from those who give.
In times before, you could not feel
My heart telling of my love,
Nor understand my hidden fears

I have conquered all that has held me back
And seek forgiveness for taking so long
But I am just a man as I have said
And the fear that ran through my veins
Is now completely gone,
For my love for you has prevailed

My pen cannot flow with feelings
Nor my paper know words written
My fear has changed this day
Aching for your answer
I know how lonely it does feel
When true love leaves you waiting
For only one answer will do.

What have I done to take so long?
Forgiveness from you I pray will come
When soon we do become as one
And promises all I will keep.
For you hold my heart as ransom-
A clever one you are,
To have done what no other could do-
All that I have guarded carefully,
I give freely to you.

My heart you have captured,
I have told you this before.
And nothing is held back,
For even my soul you now have
And in years to come you will find
That I will love you more and more

Love like this is not fleeting
But the chance could pass us by
So open up your heart
And take this silver platter-
All you have been waiting for
Is now about to happen

God has blessed us more greatly
Than we ever could have imagined,
Leading you into my arms
And leading me back to you.
I see our future every night
And give Him my gratitude

Confessing to God our hopes and fears,
Knowing all has been forgiven.
And like the promise of His love
Our love will keep on giving
Let us rest more easily
With this new beginning

Take comfort for at last you know,
What has stirred my feelings.
This story I have told only to you
And have given away all else.
For my chance to be in your heart,
I would trade the world

If my question goes unanswered,
How saddened I will be
For only "yes" can bear the fruits
Of what the future can give
"Where is your hand?" need not be asked
For the answer is already known
Till the end of time we will be together
Together we will meet Him at His throne

©Robert Edward Harris
June 24, 1999

The Horse Jumped Over the Moon

The horse jumped over the moon tonight
For how could it have been the cow?
You don't know much about farms I see
So I'm going to teach you now.

You know things aren't always what they seem
Like the story of the chicken and the egg
And the pig in the mud isn't as happy as you think
In the morning when breakfast is made.

A duck doesn't always land on the pond
Sometimes he's not sure what will pop up
Like the turtle that's lurking underneath
Waiting to eat him up

And the horse jumped over the moon tonight
Please stop telling people it was the cow
And I won't tell that your mind's in flight
As I tricked you into thinking like a child

I guess I've milked this for all that I could
Unless you're laughing now
Because the joke's on you once again
You see it really was the cow.

Well a horse can jump
And a tree leaves a stump
But there's one thing I can't figure out
Something jumped over the moon tonight
But how could it have been the cow?

As the tree that has gone before its time
Once again I've left you stumped
For in the end as in the beginning
I still believe it was the horse that jumped.