The Journey of Together

There was a desert that beckoned, we heard its call,
"Come walk through my land, and I'll show you it all."

We answered the call and stepped foot in the dirt,
leaving behind our familiar earth.

We traveled for awhile in this dry land,
and enjoyed the days of feeling the sand.

The colors of the sky, and the smell after the rain
were a few of the things that helped us sustain.

We did our best to plant our feet
we thought that would help to make us complete.

But security was lost, and sanity was questioned.

We knew right then, strange things were about to happen.

Unexpectedly, we found that our feet needed a different ground beneath.
We flew back to the place we knew would bring peace.

We said our goodbye's, we experienced deep pain,
for we knew that things wouldn't be quite the same.

With baby in tow, and just few months left for the next one to grow,
a new journey began, in a beautiful green land.

We ended up back, right where we had started.
But as we arrived, we found this "familiar" place had become uncharted.

There were doubts, fears, and pain as we began again.
Mapping out a new path can be lots to tend.

Putting the pieces back to together was such a task.
Searching your soul is a lot to ask.

As the days went on, slowly we found
a brand new way to put our feet in the ground.

We stumbled, we worried, we shed a lot of tears,
but when all that faded, we were the best we'd been in years.

For through desert, and through the pain
you often find that a rainbow remains.

Nothing is perfect, nor will it ever be
but hope, freedom, and forgiveness has happened to me.

What we found through all of this time
is that the strength was always there, just waiting for us to find.

We've opened new doors, and much has been restored.
We've found, oh how we've found, abundantly more.

Our life is not about where we are
The journey of "together" can take you near or far.

The journey of "together" is the willingness to rearrange,
to love deeply through any sort of change.

Our feet are in wet ground now, instead of the sand
and though it's been tough, there's so much more we understand.

It took the desert to show us all we know today.
Though we didn't remain there, I'll always say...

"The desert was good to us, I still miss the colors.
Without answering its call, we wouldn't know how to be together."