~the storm~

~the storm~

Nov 20

This is a poem I had written a while back.  I think it’s good to remember that life has its trials & storms.  But as long as we look to Jesus, it’ll all be alright! 

Poem, started on: 5.14.08

With tears streaming down my face, I fall to my knees…
My strength has left me, and my body’s sore.
I clench my fists & scream, yet nothing seems to ease!
I cry to the wind, “PLEASE GOD! NO MORE!”

Why did you bring me into this terrible storm?
Can you even hear, Lord? Why this and NOW?
My soul feels cold and numb, God! Can you make it once more warm?
Will you fix my torn, shattered heart somehow?

The wind, seeming to echo my prayer…stops.
A deafening silence surrounds the space,
Not even a whistle is heard through the treetops.
Nope… nothing. Each leaf and branch are in place!

The storm is still here…I’m just more alone.
(or at least that’s the way it would all seem)
This silence is killing me from the inside out,
As the feeling drifts further out to sea.

The reality of the storm I must weather
Is the sum of all my troubled-heart’s fears.
I could give up on getting through all-together,
As this great torrential turbulence nears.

I can’t give up. I was meant to battle this foe!
To be soaked by the rain, chilled by the wind.
It hurts, but I must weather this temporal woe,
Knowing I have fallen short and I sinned!