Poetry

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My Rapture
I thought I been no good all my life,
held fast in cold, loveless strife.
Most of me had little faith in grace,
my loveless ways hid me from His face.

In my bad life I was untrue, insincere,
weak, overcome, consumed by fear.
I could not believe God loved me as well,
still listening to what those liars tell.

Great hailstones pounded down on me,
as I saw how wrong I had come to be.
Fire and brimstone fed despair,
Truthfully loving thoughts were rare.

"Where is your God?" tormentors cried,
the pit yawned open, dark and wide.
My good life burned up as I fell down,
in my godlessness I began to drown.

Unbearable agony—sinner's fate,
flames of lies that burn and berate.
Self-hate stoked the furnace high,
gnashing teeth, an endless cry.

So I languished, lost in fate,
still asking how I came too late.
Unbelief constantly feeding misery
as I watched myself turn ungodly.

My hell, an endless, tortured night,
born from the bad life held inside.
Loveless deeds, untrue and deep,
now fire and judgement reap for keeps.

But after years, the Truth broke through,
God's grace reached into all I knew.
My bad life left to judgement's keep,
as angels came and reaped His sheep.

Awakened, I rose as from the dead,
His breath of truth filled me instead.
An army stood within my soul,
His blazing light became my goal.

Then in a moment, I rose to the sky,
to meet my Lord in the blink of an eye.
Behind me fell the rule of the lie,
as judgement answered every cry.

His smile held no trace of harm,
sin lost its will within His charm.
His Truthful Love lit my heart alight
seeing God's Truth for my life fight.

A holy host Jesus brought down from Above,
rebuilding my life in His kingdom of love.
Teaching my heart to walk the right way,
only His grace drive the rule of wrong away.

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