Vision - A Poem by A.G.W

 Vision

I trod the whole world over,

I traveled every road.

I only sought an answer,

I could not bear my load.

I wandered many forests,

Past marked and unmarked graves.

I passed by lonely mountains,

And seas of restless waves.

I reached at last a lonely place,

And weary fell upon my face.

A place, like me, forgotten and unkept

And there my heart broke and I wept.

And in that place to which I'd wandered

The stony earth was torn asunder

The sky above me broke and thundered

And I gazed on in fear and wonder.

I raised my voice and wept with grief,

Put my lament before God's throne.

For He was not within the storm.

And I was standing still alone.

The sky above me burned with flame,

Beneath my feet the earth did shake.

Waves rose beyond a mountain's height,

The stones around me fell and brake.

I raised my voice and wept with grief,

Put my lament before God's throne.

For He was not within the storm,

And I was standing still alone.

Hail and fire rained on the earth, 

The greatest of the mountains fell,

Above my head stood heaven's hosts,

Beneath my feet- the depths of hell.

I raised my voice and wept with grief,

Put my lament before God's throne.

For He was not within the storm, 

And I was standing still alone.

And then the softest gentle breath

Across my tear streaked face was blown.

And He was in that quiet breath,

And I stood - no more alone.  

(AGW 1/26)