“Reclamation”

By Joseph Vance and Sam Hyde

At ease with God

I felt His thundering Heart reclaim my innocence

gone is the dread that once

my own faithlessness stirred within me

washed from me,

my many sins,

hurled through space,

with no destination but emptiness,

no fate, but ruin in outer darkness,

where once I was headed,

Insanity, once rampant,

departed in tears,

it’s anger comprehensive

of refound hope,

Accounted future aeons as dead,

buried within another soul,

lost in fears,

Hope arose,

A Phoenix its fiery head,

with former expectations of doom plucked out,

as tares among wheat,

removed as it were,

dead limbs from the Tree of Life,

A glimmer of hope accosted my senses,

enough to satisfy my dim thoughts,

to water the garden of my withered dreams,

and save my thirsty soul from drought,

to blossom anew,

to shine once again,

fields of thought as drifting hopes

rush homeward, barren no more,

Life-giving water is naught but life reborn from valleys which once were as barren as a soul in sin is lost,

Now bursting forth,

a profusion of peace,

it’s golden promise.

© Hyclass Inc.

     02-02-99