Stranger

When you look in the mirror
Do you recognize yourself?
Is the person staring back at you
The same?
When you look in the mirror
Is a stranger staring back?
Are the changes you've experienced
Just pieces you won't claim?
When you look in the mirror
Can you remember who you were?
In the face of who you are
And all the hearts you've slain?
When you look in the mirror
Can you reconcile yourself?
Can you find the child inside the man -
Be who we knew again?

Rescue

Once a thing is beautiful, and turns
Into darkness and pain
Is it possible to rescue
Beauty from ruin -
To make our hearts whole again?
When all we can see is the dark
When all we can hear is the pain
When all we can feel is the anger
Where is the beauty in that?
Transforming
Is the hardest thing.
The process of turning
From nothing to gold.
Just know that
To God
You
Are the beauty
In the ruin of this world.