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Questions For Lazarus

from Long Winters by The Franklin Farm

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I want to know the details of the moment when you went.
What shelter did you have? Was it a building or a tent?

Did you feel the chill of winter or the heavy air of summer?
Did you know that it was coming? That you wouldn’t recover?

Was the weather fair or foul? Did you twist and did you turn?
Was it dark? The dead of night? Or was it light? Was there white?

Were your sisters there weeping? Were the neighbors there peeping?
Were you scared? Were you lucid? Did you wish you were alone?

What’s the first thing you remember when your Lord brought you back?
A rush of air into your lungs? The stone against your back?

The shock of women wailing, of fresh tears on your skin?
The searing light into those eyes, wide open once again?

Were you thirsty when He woke you? Was His face the first you saw?
Was it just like being born again, this reversal of God’s law?

Were you happy where you were? Did you even want to come back?
Did your eyes well with tears as you began to forget?

Could you look Him in the eye, and ask why?

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from Long Winters, released October 23, 2021

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The Franklin Farm Portland, Maine

The Franklin Farm is the moniker of John Sayles, a Maine-based guitarist, singer, songwriter, and producer. A dedicated home recorder since the early 1990's, John is also active in the Portland music scene, as a solo performer at area farmers' markets, co-ops, and coffee shops, as a member of the band Futureshoes, and as half of the musical mantra duo, Jaap. Thanks for listening! ... more

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