Give Me Sanctuary

Conversations with God at midnight

Over the atrocities of mankind beneath the starlight

Holding me as close as an invisible ghost

Shielding from those insecurities I dread the most,

Yet, it seems this night wounds time

Without an intervention so divine

Like telling my soldiers to hold the line

As tensions in our society climb,

Give me sanctuary from all I can’t control

Give me one good reason to save my soul

All the self-recrimination has taken its toll

Perhaps I’ve been playing the wrong role,

Reciting from the book of dreams

Of mice and men and their flawed schemes

Baby I know you’re coming apart at the seams

Insanity has brought them to extremes,

Somewhere there’s got to be a sacred place

A sanctuary from the exhaustive pace

Some voice of reason to the rat race

A paradox to this time and space,

God reaches into to my troubled brain

Trying to push me into the slower lane

Keeps me from shouting out something profane

Shelter from the self-imposed pain.