The Tower

Higher everyday climbed

The tower around my heart

Thinking if I kept it all in

This life would never fall apart

But I made the mistake

Of reaching the top

Building and building

Not once did I stop

Slowly over time

The light was shut out from the sky

My fountain of strength

Had suddenly run dry

At first being on my own

Was the best place to be

Nothing to justify

Independent and free

But then the darkness grew cold

And the loneliness set it

The need for someone else

Cried out from within

So mighty it seemed

Unbending in winds of rage

But drop by drop engulfed in tears

The flood released me from my cage

The collapse of my greatest wall

And yet I felt no despair

For through my friends and through it all

God’s love was always there

The weight of our burdens

By which we all seem bound

Will be broken and lifted

The day all our towers

Have fallen to the ground