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Yahweh's Fire
: This is the most important poem I've ever written, though maybe not the best. It represents my decision to move on, and my decision to be obedient to God. It also expresses well my belief that the trials of life are all designed to push us towards God and to wean us away from our detrimental habits and pleasures.
I will suffer the wound,
I will shed the tears,
I will wear the scars,
That mark the years.
I will stand up tall,
I will face my pain,
I will not be moved,
I'll accept the shame.
I will not be tied
To my false desire,
I will take what's real,
Pass through the fire,
I'll not be consumed,
But be purified.
When the dross is gone,
I will not have died.
I will learn to stand
On the shaky ground.
I will tune my ears
To the far-off sound
Of the song that grows
With every tear
Shed by the child
That faces her fear.
Too long have I been cruelly bound by fear and false desire,
But in my ears there builds the sound of Yahweh's holy fire.
Now let me be the first to lay my weakness at his feet,
Knowing when night turns into day the bitter will be made sweet.
He'll burn away what cannot last: a piercing fear I feel.
But I know when Yahweh comes to pass, he'll give me what is real.
It builds, it grows, that fearsome roar, that blazing fiery sound.
But Joy! When time shall be no more, in Him I shall be found.
I will go to the throne,
I will lay down my life,
I will give all I have.
I will suffer the strife.
I'll submit myself
to this fleshly Hell.
Till the fire of Yahweh
Makes me well.
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