hallelujah

She tells me she can hear god through the clouds,

That she waits for thunderstorms and prays for sign.

For an amen to fall from the sky, crackle and crash against the ground,

And shake everything but her faith.

And maybe thats why she’s with me.

Because of the lightning that exists beneath my ribs,

Or the thunder that aches in my bones.

Anger rolls off me in waves, but still she swears that this is my path to salvation.

She believes it is Gods will,

But it is her name I hear in the rain.

And I do not mean to tell her,

But this hallelujah falls from my lips faster then my fumbling fingers can catch it;

Crashes to the ground, singes the dirt at my feet, and leaves me shaken.