OMINOUS SKIES - by Erin NeSmith

These are some lyrics I wrote about my own struggles with security, assurance, value and purpose as a woman. I am going out on a limb to offer these to my Element family on "Stories from the Colony". I hope they might mean something to someone other than me...even if it's to just one person, it would mean the world to me. I am so grateful for the opportunity to risk vulnerability and share. 

We weep in silence, alone in our rooms 

We fear rejection and the failure it looms 

But how do we conquer and vanquish this foe? 

Oh God, hear our prayers because we do not know

In many forms the dark clouds they roll in 

Overhead, one by one, silver linings, not one 

And now the decent from the ominous sky 

Has me enveloped by a fog that suffocates my try

In our most honest moments we gather resolve 

We pack it away and get on with our call 

But all of a sudden without any warning 

We're jolted and thrown and sent into our mourning

In many forms the dark clouds they roll in 

Overhead one by one, silver linings, not one 

And now the decent from the ominous sky 

Has me enveloped by a fog that suffocates my try

What do we need? How do we get filled? 

What should we ask? Can we join in your guild? 

Weary and worn out with festering wounds 

We're withering lovelies please help us to bloom...

All in a moment Your hope it shines through

Dissipating, one by one, silver linings, there's some

And now the decent from the ominous sky

Is a brilliant light of the Son that rescues my try

This is the cycle and You have the key

To end it and save me and teach me to see

So give me the strength to believe You are in

All of it, everything, even the dim

You are my lifeline, the center of hope

My joy is unshaken even under this yoke

Hold me together please don't let me break

And Your glory will shine at the of the day