The sweet gentle gaze

Her first day of life

Swaddled with tears of Joy

Only warmth and love, no strife

 

The warm milk flows across her lips

Kneading her mama’s breast

She gazes into her eyes yet again

She drifts off to dreamland and rest

 

Her first steps, her first fall

What is this pain?

She smells familiarity

Comforted, safe; love is her refrain

 

Growing forever growing

She sees anger, rage

Her heart breaks and weeps

This is so foreign to her heart; she turns the page

 

Complexity replaces simple love

Confusion replaces her comfort

This world is not safe

Shame, guilt and sorrow begin her retort

 

I’m never enough

What have I become?

Is there any hope left at all?

I can’t be from here, where did I come from?

 

Lies, lies and more lies

Deception, sorrow and grief

A broken heart and shattered dreams

Nothing is as it seems, where O where is my relief?

 

Mercy, please have mercy

There is nothing left

Where is the love I thought I once knew?

I run and hide In the cleft

 

Angels come and minister

His Spirit speaks to her soul

Love is real He says

Don’t use your senses to know and I’ll make you whole

 

He picks up all the shattered pieces with gentleness and Love

Watch me move away this mountain

Look only to me

Joy springs up from her fountain

 

I’ve given you a gift born out of my love

It grew and manifested

Loneliness and darkness are required

To challenge that seed that was once dead

 

For out of the dying comes new life

Out of rejection and loss

Comes real true love

Now Father has cut off that albatross

 

Renewal change and growth

For everything that left her presence

Made room for her to spread her wings

Her energy soared with such resonance

 

She has now become her destiny

With much understanding and power

This graceful warrior realized

Twas the darkness all along she needed to devour

 

This was only possible

Because Abba Father

Sent His son out of love

To bear it all and save her forever and ever!!!

 

She was born of destiny

She had to choose to walk in obedience

She had to have Faith and humility

She now stands in His presence

 

©2018 Jennifer Wallace