City Coffee Rags and Toffee

The lingering thoughts of running shoes
Snow flurries, broken shells, exotic fruits
We never died just never had a chance to bloom

The Sun and the sky out my window couldn't tell me right now
I missed their beauty, sitting their thought highway bound
I wonder of all the things to come
I remember the past and where it all came from

The simple slicing of an orange
The simple packing up and storing
It feels boring without you my friend
It feels though, keeping it together like a book end

Yeah I never knew ya for long
Just over half a year gone
It’s amazing what a glimpse at a hearts desire can do
Folding you up and then unfolding you

You make me want to spend time just to spend it
Hit rewind and do it again just because of this
Here I am again compelled to write
Thinking of a laugh, a smile so bright

And here I write but there are no words I could say
To explain or pull myself away from these thoughts
I ought to be taught a lesson on forgetting and letting go
But I’ve been running for far to long
Under raindrops that o familiar song

This is so literal terms
Literal imagery and words
They’re all I have to express my duress
For quitting giving up on this
But have I really given up on this

I would just spend time because it works
Because I enjoy every word falling from your lips
It makes sense to make time for it
I’ve never felt peace with someone like this

They say it takes a little more time
More than it would take me or to make this rhyme
But I couldn't help seeing and realizing it in just one rhyme
With these last written words I retreat into the street blue sky and sunshine
And find myself next to a man on a corner street helping him beg for a dime
Something so simple easy to obtain, the basics of spending time
he gives his opinion at first with a sarcastic laugh and smile, just to have him read it I'm flattered
and I'm not sure weather it sucks or not but it doesn't matter
and we return to our task of begging for dimes after we laugh for a while
all of this worth it I guess in it's distance an miles
Just for our laugh and a smile
and so in that moment I realize
The battle in my life is against my Joy
and so I see my God is here to let me know he's here to take me on this journey
to make sure I'm reminded again of this real story...

we search for joy in all these things, relationships, workouts, goals, mountains, jobs, experiences, stuff and forget to go after it by seeking it, asking for Joy, talking about Joy, with the only one that can actually give us Joy. and that Is Jesus... it's not that all those things are bad or wrong to seek at all but when we seek joy from God rather than those things, those things are just enriched and we can pour it out as we do them or experience them, and share in them, and show that Joy off to everyone around us as we live life content first and only In Jesus.....

Aaron Johnson