If You Only Knew

If you only knew
what this world holds for you
when you open your eyes
instead of clenching them closed

if you would only take a leap of faith,
you've been standing for so long,
that you've forgotten what it meant to fall
to fall from your pendulum, to fall in love

This world isn't as cruel as it seems,
there's beauty in everything
if you would just look closer,
looking beyond what you can see

believing there's something out there,
someone waiting to see you as you are,
taking you as you are, willing to listen to you

If you only knew
there is someone watching over you,
someone to be there for you if you fall
who won't let you fall
without being there to hold you
to clean the cuts and heal the bruises

If you only knew
when the darkness comes
that there will be a light to follow

Even when there's an earthquake
separating you from everything you love

Even when the tornado takes you away
from anywhere you have known
there is something better waiting for you

If you only knew
pain comes from experience,
you have to fall in order to fly
you have to take a few wrong turns
to know where you should go,
that when people hurt you,
It takes a strong person to forgive
and there will be someone who won't

If you only knew