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YOUNG IN YEARS
BUT ADVANCED IN THE WAY
HE WAS SENT ON HUNTS
IN THE NAME OF HIS LORD
JESUS CHRIST.
BATTERED, BRUISED
AND BLINDED BY PAIN
HE’D BEEN LEFT FOR DEAD.
SHATTERED IN SPIRIT
AND TORMENTED IN MIND,
HE CRAWLED AWAY.
THE KNIGHT HAD NOT REALIZED
THAT HIS VALIANT PROTECTOR
HAD NOT LEFT HIM.
HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND
THAT BATTLES MAY BE LOST,
EVEN THOUGH THE WAR
HAD ALREADY BEEN WON
BY JESUS CHRIST.
CONFIDENCE GAINED
FROM CONSTANT VICTORY
AS A KNIGHT OF THE SWORD AND THE CUP
WAS REPLACED BY THE DESPAIR OF DEFEAT.
HUMILIATION REPLACED
FEAR AND SORROW,
AS KINGFISHERS FOUND THE FALLEN KNIGHT
AND COMMENCED TO CELEBRATE
“THE JUSTICE OF GOD”
AGAINST THIS “MISGUIDED GHOST RIDER.”
11/27/87 c. 1989
The promise of mothers and rainbows
IN THE FUTURE
I WILL SEE
OTHER ISLANDS
THAT ARE BUT DREAMS.
HE MEDITATES
WHILE SCANNING
FOR SPOOR.
WHICH WAY?
WESTWARD
DEATH’S HEAD VALLEY
BELCHES ALKALI BREATHS
FROM ITS PARCHED MAW.
***
Winter 1987
JEREMY MARANATHA
WHY AM I BECALMED
OH, LORD,
UPON THIS FLOATING ISLE,
WHILE THE RIPPLELESS SEA
WITH ITS MIRROR SHEEN
MOCKS MY DOUBTS
AND MIMICS ME?
YOUR DISCERNMENT
IS MY NIGHT VISION.
PRIVATEER KINGSMEN
IN MEETING HOUSE FRIGATES
COME UNDER COVER OF NIGHT
TO RAZE MY FIEF
AND CHAIN ME.
LORD,
THEIR RETURN IS IMMINENT,
BUT YOU ARE MY PROTECTOR:
WHY SHOULD I FEAR?
“GO!
COMMUNE WITH OUR GOD.
SEE WHAT HE SAYS,
THEN WE WILL AYE-SAY OR NAY-SAY,
FOR WE ARE THE ELDERS OF BETHEL,
APPOINTED BY MEN
BECAUSE OF OUR WISDOM OF YEARS.”
OR THAT WHEN
YOU BID ME LEAVE,
THEY’LL LIKE YOUR WORDS
EVEN LESS
AND TROUBLE ME
EVEN MORE.
12/86
PEACEFUL GENTLE MORNING (ALSO A SONG)
EXPECTANTLY I WAIT
ON MY LORD AND GOD AND KING.
JESUS MY PRECIOUS SAVIOR--
I WAIT FOR WORD FROM HIM.
I’VE LEARNED TO SEEK HIS PRESENCE,
NOT VOICES AND MIRACLES.
SPRING 1991
SUCCESS
ABIDE IN HIM
AND IN ALL WAYS
LET CHRIST BE SEEN
THROUGH YOU.
5/25/88