My ladies are not lost They tarry a while Loaded down with disturbance and hurt With loneliness and fear Yet she is gentle, as the dew at dawn As the breast of the thrush And she is true like the sycamore She has pain that tears at her soul That bruises her very heart She has deep sadness That swallows her down and steals her hope But all is not gone Is not out of reach A day is coming A day of new beginnings A new world With a new sun That will light the path to the real life She will cleanse her tired feet in the moist green meadow And dance among a flame of tulips A garland of daisies will be strung upon her pale neck She will kiss the fallow deer And frolic with the little ape Her sadness will be wiped clean by the streams of joy That will flow endlessly from the mountain Trees will bow to her with offerings of colour All flowers and tastes will excite her endlessly White topped mountains will be her candles Lit by the glorious light of a new dawn Love will overwhelm her And take her by the hand For she has been told Her eye will behold Sights that she has never beheld Sounds that she has not heard Her mother's voice singing a lullabye The face of her grandmother's mother The sweet echo of pure silence Her little ones will flourish, free of their scars And she will taste motherhood for the first time With all the rich meaning that it brings And she will greet her lost ones, stolen by death There will be no trembling or hiding No sting of creature, or death She will not need to hope For all her hopes will be fulfilled All malice and breakdown of spirit will be lifted from her gentle heart That it might be soft and true again As her beauty She will never be lost again Never know mourning again She will forever know peace As a green forest that sways in a gentle breeze That whispers to her Words of love, of comfort and restΒ Β For a daystar will rise in her heart And she will be saved She will be whole For she has bowed to a righteous king And he has promised my loves, my ladies They will be there, on that cleansed earth When that kingdom arrives The kingdom of love and healing
For the three ladies in my life, my wife and daughters