If Not For You

If not for you

If I’d never heard your voice

I’d have never known the joys

Of nights of love and mornings too

If not for you

If not for you 

There’d be words I never said

Books I would have never read

Church would be a lonely pew

If not for you

If not for you

I’d be left to aimlessly roam

A lost soul on wasted streets alone

Without a home to come home to

If not for you

If not for you

There’d be poems I never thought

Demons I’d have never fought

To prevent a total coup

If not for you

If not for you 

To guide me with your wisdom

Lead me through this savage system

That’s harder than I want to do

I’d have quit, if not for you

September 2016