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lets buy an old house and fix it up right
lets buy an old rundown place and make it just right
when we are young, we will learn what it means to endure
what it means to be battered, and patched and calm
lets move in, my love, and lets learn to be strong

if you won't shut the window, i'll pray it won't rain,
if you'll not shut the window, we might feel the rain,
we might wake up shaking like children in fear
or we might in the morning when east hits the west
feel the sun on our faces and a breeze on our chests.

la, la, la, la...

we locked all the doors, when your mother, she died
i checked all the doors were locked when your mother died,
we packed clothes for the week, and i drove the whole way
and i thought of my mother, kissed her in january
as we knelt on the ground where my father is buried.

like our Father
like what is his
widest love and
deep with promise
we are given
to each other
like the Son and
like his lover

i don't know how the shadows turn light into water,
i don't know why the light through leaves looks like water,
when its stretched out and thin near the end of the day
and we're drowning the fall in the silence we keep
in the evening stream, we'll walk home quietly.

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from O Voice, O Word, released September 18, 2014

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John Daniel Raines Chicago, Illinois

John is a musician living in the suburbs of Chicago. When not making music, he spends much of his time finishing nursing school, writing poetry and contemplative essays, mulling about his church, and smiling at people, or else looking very intently at them. ... more

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