The Story I Live

The Story I Live

If you give a girl a pen, there are five things she can do:

She can take it in her hand and get a vise-like hold,

and write her story just the way she wants it to be told

She can set it to the paper and with strokes that are dark and bold, 

she can draw her story out the way she wants it to be told

She can take the pen and write the notes that swirl inside her head; 

turning air into a song that tells her story loud and strong

Or four, which is the saddest of these, she takes the pen and lets it lie,

leaving her life without ambition and wasting the years she has been given

But five gives an image that is sweetest of all - a picture of trust and love -

when she takes the pen and opens her hand and says to her Father in Heaven:

"This life isn't mine, I've been bought with a price, so take this pen in Your hand,

and write out the story You want me to live and help me to follow your plan."

'Till next time!

© Jamie Channing 2012