I Did Not

I did not
Fall
Away

I was shot

From a rocket
Away from
Everything
I knew

And I survived

And rose up
And realized

Where I came from

Was not a place
I could
Return to

I did not

Leave
Home

My house

Burned to ash
Around me
Requiring that
I make
My home
Elsewhere

I did not

Walk away
From God

Though for a time

If God was there
God wasn’t
Findable

Shot far away

Home burned to ash
God not found

You don’t
Journey back
From that

You journey forward

You don’t

Rebuild
With old plans

You build new

You don’t

Set limits
On where
God is found

You set your gaze wider

So I journey forward

And I build new
And I gaze wider

Not because
I fell away
Or walked away

But because

This was
The only
Way