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TITLE: Your Gift To Soar | Previous Challenge Entry
By Henry Clemmons
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Their little wings have learned to soar as new day’s heat rises,
They sing a meaningless song to untrained ears,
But
I have lived dozens of years
And have learned the song of rare reddish wrens at daybreak’s light.
Not all birds hatched with shorter frame and smallish wings know how to soar,
They usually flap and beat the wind in tiring, work-like fashion,
But rare reddish wrens don’t wrestle with wind,
They soar and sing songs
That I have learned to hear as night dissolves in light;
Through the years of my life.
There was a time, if I were a bird; I would have been a flapper,
I fought the wind and never sung songs as dawn was drawn into a new day,
I flapped and flapped and flapped, never knowing the wind was my friend,
Until
I heard the song of the rare reddish wrens at daybreak’s light:
We sing praises to you, Lord,
As we ride the morning wind.
We sing praises to you, Lord,
As we soar with our friend.
We sing praises to you, Lord,
As we see your day begin.
Forever more,
Forever more,
We adore your gift to soar,
Forever more.
It’s not about how fast we fly
And if we get their first.
It’s not about how much we get
And if we get the most.
It’s all about your presence
And singing praise to you.
Forever more,
Forever more,
We adore your gift to soar,
Forever more.
It was the daybreak following years of night that I first heard the rare reddish wrens in flight,
It was God’s grace I began to feel the wind on my face and a fresh song in my ear,
And I saw the rare reddish wrens soar as they praised the Lord as a new day glided into being.
I too, now, sing praises to the Lord every morning,
Of every day,
In every year:
I sing praise to you, Lord,
As I ride the morning wind.
I sing praise to you, Lord,
As I soar with my friend.
I sing praise to you, Lord,
As I see your day begin.
Forever more,
Forever more,
I adore your gift to soar,
Forever more.
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