I Turn Away Poem by Drew Engman

I Turn Away

Walking on the shore away from the beach
The tide keeps rising higher
Than my footsteps can reach,
And I'm washed away uncertain
But remembering I can swim,
I'm just never really sure how
I ended up down here again.

It's like a living thing, that ocean,
That reaches out to drown me.
Even here up in the desert,
It's like I can't change a thing.

So I give it up for Jesus
He says 'Don't give it up for me!
I gave myself for you, man!
And that's not some righteous dream.'

So I fall down broken, humbled;
Left without excuse, but in His Grace:
I turn away so frightened
To look in to His eyes, His face,

And I come away uncertain
But somehow clean and new
Every day's one more unique day
And I can choose what I will do