Humanity, having strayed from the Almighty’s provision of life,

is ignorant of the purpose of existence,

but fears death nonetheless.

They are without help or support,

yet still reluctant to close their eyes,

and they steel themselves

to drag out an ignoble existence in this world,

sacks of flesh with no sense of their own souls.

You live in this way, without hope, as do others, without aim.

Only the Holy One of legend will save the people who,

moaning in the midst of their suffering,

long desperately for His arrival.

So far, such belief has not been realized

in those who lack consciousness.

Nevertheless, the people still yearn for it so.

The Almighty has mercy on these people who have suffered deeply;

at the same time, He is fed up with

these people who lack consciousness,

as He has had to wait too long for an answer from humanity.

He wishes to seek, to seek your heart and your spirit,

to bring you water and food

and to awaken you, that you may no longer be thirsty and hungry.

When you are weary

and when you begin to feel something of

the bleak desolation of this world,

do not be lost, do not cry.

Almighty God, the Watcher, will embrace your arrival at any time.

He is keeping watch by your side,

waiting for you to turn back around.

He is waiting for the day you suddenly recover your memory:

when you realize that you came from God,

that, at some unknown time you lost your direction,

at some unknown time you lost consciousness on the road,

and at some unknown time acquired a “father”;

when you realize, furthermore,

that the Almighty has always been keeping watch,

waiting there a very, very long time for your return,

waiting there a very, very long time for your return.

He has been watching with desperate longing,

waiting for a response without an answer.

His standing watch is beyond any price,

and it is for the sake of the human heart and the human spirit.

Perhaps this standing watch is indefinite, and perhaps it is at an end.

But you should know exactly where your heart and your spirit are right now.

Perhaps this standing watch is indefinite, and perhaps it is at an end.

But you should know exactly where your heart and your spirit are right now.

from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs