(that I would get back to writing. it's not a story but it's something.)
Drink of My Tears
You squeeze out my tears into Your bottle again.
My spirit responds to You with watered eyes;
the arrows of your eyes pierce my thunderhead.
Tears like rain washing down a dirty wall
descend my face
like the way You wash over my tarnished heart.
Jesus, Jesus, drink of my tears.
I see You hanging on the wood;
You thirst.
Here, Jesus, drink;
drink of my tears.
They can't help but fall
when You move,
when You walk into the room.
The Island
I swam out to a lonely island
in a gray sea
under a thickly misted sky.
I felt cold;
there was no one with me.
The water, like abandoned dreams
and people who left us,
kept me cold.
My breaststrokes divided the water
as I propelled myself under it.
No longer did I walk the shores
of this sea of lonliness.
I set out to find You.
You set my feet upon a rock
wide enough for me to stand.
I was surrounded by water but
You gave me solid ground beneath my feet.
Patient patient patient One,
Why'd You leave me waiting here?
You said that You have not forgotten me;
emphatically so.
Unrocked, unwrecked, yet unwritten
alone here,
alone there, with you, somewhere.
Cyclone of light, I see it coming down.
Suck me up into higher places;
make me to transcend this place
for You are more real than here.
Take me up from this lonely island.
The reality of You whispers above the roar of the silence,
and if I can't see You, I look for You inside my heart.
For even when there is no ground or light,
I hold onto You-- I cling to You
like there's nothing else
for there. is. nothing. else.
Suspended in darkness
or raptured in light
I can't flee from You,
for when I run
You chase me.
5 comments:
I love these very much. My favorite lines in "The Island" are
"Unrocked, unwrecked, yet unwritten
alone here,
alone there, with you, somewhere."
Great alliteration and description. Also, I love the "Seven Swans" shout out in the end. Also, I love the imagery of "suspended in darkness or raptured in light." Also, I love you, mi hermana.
I love you very much, Baby D.
Thanks for reading so insightfully.
The last part is inspired by dad's salvation experience.
i can see your heart in these. it's good to write so openly hu?
Wow Kaitie these are incrdible, I feel like "Drink of My Tears" speaks value to my heart. Thank you. "The Island" is so intimate and stirs my heart to know Him intimately. I like
I hold onto You-- I cling to You
like there's nothing else
for there. is. nothing. else
Well done
Thanks, very much.
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