Posted by Shola Peters Aderemi on
MYSTERIES
BEYOND MY KEN,
HOW MAY I
EXPLAIN
A LONELY
HEART IN THE FOREST CRYING FOR HELP,
BUT NO HELP
ON THE WAY (SIGH!)
COLD WIND'S
BLOWING ON MY NAKED BODY
AND THIS
LIFE'S STORM'S BECOMING REAL
DOES GOD
REALLY CARE?
IN THE MIST
OF LIFE'S CRISIS, I CRIED
I WAS LOST IN
A LONELY FOREST
FACED WITH
THE REALITY OF THE JUNGLE EXPERIENCE
THIS STORMY
GALE ON MY SAIL
WILL THIS
ALSO PASS AWAY?
I STUMBLED ON
THE RUBBLE
BUT A FIBRE
HELD ME STILL
WITH DOUBTS
IN MY HEART
I UTTERED A
FEW WORDS OF PRAYER
THEN YOU GAVE
ME A SIGN
THAT YOU
HEARD ME PRAY
A FLASH FROM
THE SKY AND RUMBLES IN THE CLOUD
TOLD YOU'RE
THERE
IN MY
LONELINESS,
YOU SENT ME
THE NIGHTINGALE
BIRDS GAVE
MUSIC IN A DESERTED FOREST
THE THRUSH
AND RAVEN
LEND THEIR
SOLO
RAINDROPS ON
THE BROAD LEAVES
ADDED THE
RHYTHMS
THE
INVIGORATING WINDS ON MY LOBES
COMBINED THE
NOTES
AND THE
ENTIRE JUNGLE LIFE
BURST INTO
RUSTIC MELODY
I CAME OUT OF
THE LONELY FOREST
IN RHAPSODY
OF DELIGHT
BUT LOST IN
THE RUSTIC CHARM
OF THE
COUNTRY LIFE
DING-DONG,
T'S THE GROUNDFATHER CLOCK
ON THE WALL
ABOVE ME
ANNOUNCING
THE ARRIVAL
OF A
BEAUTIFUL MORNING
THEN THE
REALITY OF A VOICE BESIDE MY BED
REMINDS ME
T'S 5AM ON MONDAY
SUN YET TO
RELOEASE ITS RAYS,
BUT MOON
STILL AGLOWING IN COLUORFUL SPLENDOUR
ALAS! MY
WHOLE WORLD OF DREAMS
SUDDENLY
COLLAPSED IN A SECOND
THEN I ASKED,
LORD DID YOU
HEAR ME CRY?
Insp: (Judg
6:36-40)
By Shola Peters
Aderemi