I just wrote these two poems a few weeks back. I know the inspiration could have only come from God. The first, Love’s Whisper, is about a person lost in the desperation of this fallen world until he recognizes the whispers of God at the door of his heart. The second, Dreaming Eden, is just how I pictured the original creation before the tarnish of sin and how God’s Light and Glory was even more beautiful than all of that.
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LOVE’S WHISPER
Time ticks ever by
One lonely soul exhales a sigh
Simply evaporates into the sky
Yet still heard by Him on high
A weary heart leaks a tear
Seasoned by a crippling fear
But God beckons ever so near
And Jesus counts him oh so dear
Callused feet crunch upon smoothened stones
Resounding with the ache inside his bones
The consuming pain no one knows
Devouring grief steadily grows
The wind taunts, making the feet sway
Giants jeer, driving them from God’s way
A worn mind unraveling in an endless fray
Looking for where its burden now to lay
A finite being pitted against nothing less
Than cursed cosmos blended into a mess
Wandering to where? He cannot guess
Tempted and tried, wounded at best
Shredded and torn by the world without mercy
Willing to surrender all to be free
Convicted by the thought, “How can one love me?”
A creature abandoned and abused, searching desperately
Upon God’s ears his yearnings feather like dew
His heart floods with love all anew
Whispering at the door, “My son, must I woo?
Don’t you feel My fierce love burning for you?”
“For months will come and months will go
But My love for you will always glow
The rushing tide of passion shall never slow
Desire for you pulses in an unceasing flow.”
“Indeed, I have seen all that you ever did
But my love from you I never hid
With My Son’s life for yours had I bid
Now all your sins forever have I rid.”
The tortured soul at last sees His light
The piercing sun shattering the darkest night
The world cowered and resisted with all its might
But in God’s hands all was held tight
The fragile heart finally could rise
It cast all hurts and fears aside
No more oppressed by devilish lies
The fork-tongued one exiled, tossed outside
A mortal man saved by unmerited grace
For in his life compassion laced
Now he seeks to follow the Lord’s ways
Earnestly serving all of his days
God’s child triumphed at last, you see
Thanks to His love and healing mercy
No matter how beaten and bruised you may be
With God you can conquer victoriously!
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Dreaming Eden
I close my eyes, just a blink
But no, I’m swept away
Into a sea of darkness
This is the land of dreams
Black is washed away
Cleansing green replaces
Swirls and bubbles erupt
Into visions of crisp grasses
Browns and mottled oranges
Spring and dance before my eyes
Soon the crystallize into trees
Creating what’s only found in dreams
My own world sprouts to life
Blue trickles by in a shimmer
Comes at me from all sides
Before dropping to embrace the stones
Wings flutter by me
Tiny feathers kiss my cheeks
Birds flit all about
Landing in my world to sing
Stripes and patches zoom
Barks and hisses and neighs
All of creation has seemed to join
In my own land of dreams
Shards of cloud criss-cross the sky
The sun twinkles a smile
The moon turns its face to laugh
As singing stars join the harmony
A man stumbles into sight
His feet glide among the ferns
Soon he tumbles into his own sleep
I wonder if he is dreaming too
A woman emerges from the trees
She drops from wrinkled branches
Her feet grace the ground
And pitter-patter to greet her partner
A bright light explodes
All else blended, camouflaged
Glory so pure, so blinding
True beauty above all creation
Surely this dream is not my own
My imagination too limited
For I did not create the world
I am only an inhabitant
I am not its dreamer
Nor is it a dream