Magnet lure of the sand

With concealing intentions

Overthrown by your hand

Demanding my redemption 

 

Haul me past the resistance 

Lighten up my dark surface

More buoyant with distance

It is you; you're my purpose 

 

Explore past this shell 

Reveal all that's been hiding

When faced with my protest, 

Test and stay beside me  

 

Maintain what you've shown

Trust in the temporary

Though such heavy a stone

You've enlisted to carry

 

Let me live in your wisdom

For I fear what's beneath me 

I beg you not to question 

I plead for you to keep me

 

Storm by storm, hit by hit 

Avalanches of boulders 

Falling fast down upon us

And landing on your shoulders 

 

Shielding me from their aim

One more crack, I’d be dust

You were never to blame 

You are all that I trust

 

If ever you sent me back

Skipped me clear across the sea

I'd succumb to the black

Just a stone, I would be

 

I'd give in to the ocean

To the sand, I'd surrender 

I'd harden without you

My heart’s only contender

 

But if you turn the tide 

Like the sun, sure and sturdy

Pull me in and I'll thrive 

Like the moon, I'll be worthy 

 

For you are my touchstone 

All I've known to be true

And I, merely gravel

If ever without you