Beneath the Laughter

It's so hard to leave this place-These memories time won't erase

I must be leaving and my heart is grieving

It's so hard to be going without ever knowing'

If the seeds I've been sowing will grow-God only knows!

I prayed that God would teach me to love

For I knew I didn't care enough

Now I weep- I'm losing sleep

As on my knees I pray -my friends will see the way!

That through your power they might know!Let them know!

That beneath the laughter runs a line of despair

A faith built on fallacy hasn't a prayer

Rejecting the savior Not thinking things through

Content in believing that nothing is true

The hardest thing a man can do

Is to shake the dust from His feet

And walk away from those whose rejection is complete

Well I may never know-If the captives will be free

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Anthony Foster

Upon leaving employment in Memephis

But when I leave them in their chains I also leave their key!