Tell Me How - Rosie Thomas

How am I supposed to know what love is really like

When, I’ve never even been in love before?

Aren’t you supposed to love yourself before

You can understand how to love someone after all?

How can I find a way to keep my mother safe

From the boogie man who hides under the stairs?

How can I find a way to take this breath away

When he’s gently sleeping soundly next to her?

Oh how?

Oh how?

Oh how?

Oh how can I save her?

How am I to live this life when the only certainty

Is that death is waiting for me at the end?

And every day that passes I know time is running out

And I fear that I may fail the life I’ve been given

Oh how?

Oh how?

Tell me how?

Oh how am I supposed to live?

How am I to define what faith is to a child

When the only explanation lies within?

How am I to tell them if they never follow Christ

That heaven doesn’t hold a place for them?

Oh how?

Oh how?

Tell me how when I’m no better than them