Poetry
Crying In The Night
Something strange and most incredible did take place,
when I met my Maker face to face
My life and language I once drew from a gutter,
was transformed from that moment thereafter.
Taking retorical meaningless chatter,
replacing it with something alive, full of truth, a beautiful venacular.
I used to jest of repulsive matters,
arguing the truth to invoke foolish laughter.
Seering my conscience, putting God to the test,
leaving me in anguish without peace or rest.
The thing that seems to shame me the most.
Was, how Jesus was constantly the butt of the joke.
What a horrible language, I once thought so clever.
It was ignorant, unteachable, an attitude of, "WHATEVER!"
"IF IT FEELS GOOD, DO IT!" Was the language of the day.
I am sickened inside when I think of how I lived that same way.
Let me tell you of the day I was stricken,
God came calling, reavealing the darkness I lived in.
While hanging at a park speaking gibberish with friends.
A stranger and a blind man, on a mortorcycle rode in.
It appeared to me, that I was the only one who could see,
How they parted the crowd, like Moses did the Red Sea.
It was me seperated from the crowd,
they spoke a language so foriegn, out loud.
They held my trembling hand,
on my knees I fell to the sand.
Speaking the name I had always cursed,
suddenly into tears I did burst.
They told me that Jesus was my Savior,
who died leaving men with Gods favor.
I confessed I believed what they'd said.
They finished by saying Jesus had risen from the dead.
I opened my eyes and stood to my feet.
The two men were gone.
They had left without a peep.
I ran toward the crowd to find my good friend.
Grabbing her, begging. "Did you see me with those two men?"
Her reply was, she'd seen them before.
They approached me and said Jesus was knocking at my hearts door.
At the time they seemed to be nice enough,
but I was having a good time and thought they were rude to interrupt.
It was then I had realized someting had happened for sure.
I wasn't the same, something changed, I wasn't a mess like before.
The vile thoughts, my example had implored,
was gone, I could speak that debauchery no more.
The language, that I do now speak
Is foriegn, to the lost friends I did keep.
A new tongue of salvation, expressions of love,
A flowing new language came down from above.
I was haunted with visions of all my lost friends,
I felt if I didn't hurry someones life would come to an end.
It did't take long for me to go back to that park,
I took off hastely hoping to ignite an eternal spark.
I arrived with such confidence, and the heart of my Father,
I was saddened to see, they all looked so much harder.
Slipping further down, their appearance even darker.
My friends said when I had arrived,
It appeared that I followed a bright light,
Finally, some hope, that lonely dark night.
I humbley replied, this change has happened because of nothing I had done,
It was from God, Jesus, He is the one.
The first step to coming out of the dark,
Is asking Jesus to come and live in your heart.
Come! Follow me! Let's make a new start!
So many left the comforts of their sin,
Breaking the chains of eternal damnation.
Picking up their cross they followed Jesus, no hesitations.
Stepping out of darkness into the army of light.
Jesus the commander , We, at his side.
Joining as one, we entered the fight,
Likeminded, on a mission, the only purpose to this life.
THE SALVATION OF SOULS!
Can you hear them crying in the night?
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