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TITLE: The witness of the garden | Previous Challenge Entry
By Melanie Kerr
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On a warm and sunny day
Life so pure and flawless
Was coldly snatched away
The enemy so stealthily
With words so soft and light
Poisoned hearts and spirits
With bleak and cutting spite
Fruit that was forbidden
Was taken from the tree
With the hollow, empty promise
“In tasting, you’ll be free.”
The garden bore its witness
To mankind’s sinful deed
Inside their stubborn hearts was sown
And ugly, hellish seed
Rebellion like a flower
Flushed with foolish pride
Lured them from the narrow path
And from their Maker’s side
Fear stalked in the shadows
Darkness clouded day
Into a frigid, freezing world
God’s children made their way
For years and generations
The seasons came and went
Man’s efforts to draw near to God
Were futile, empty, spent
But then, another garden
Gethsemane, the place
A man who sweated blood
Sought the Maker’s face
“Not my will,” he uttered
“I’ll drink Your cup of wrath.
I’ll bear Your whip of anger.
And walk Your bloody path.”
Angels watched in wonder
This long envisioned scene
One life, one sacrifice restored
Mankind to where they’d been
This garden bore its witness
To this man’s bended knee
His whole and full surrender
Would set creation free
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