Finding Forevermore (with reading)

[tom]

www.tippiesdad.com/media/FindingForevermore.mp3

My pride tells me to pay my debt
Until I do, deny my blessings
Don’t read the Book, ignore His story
Struggle and drink your own tears
Forget salvation, it’s only a dream
Live for today, there is no forevermore

Yet my heart hears forevermore
Calling me free of debt
Trying to shake me from this dream
To wake me to the blessings
Found in the blood, the tears,
The pain and joy in my Savior’s story

So I took the book, read the story,
Found the promise of forevermore;
Stained some pages with my tears;
Lost the crushing weight of my debt
As I read the offering of blessings
And journeyed as if in a dream

Those verses, though of the nature of dream,
Were truly God’s given story
Of His eternal love and many blessings
Of His heaven and home of forevermore
Where the soul resides, free of sin’s debt,
Fulfilling what once was only a dream.

Could you cry with His tears?
Could you hold your faith above your dream?
Can you really be absolved of your debt?
Accept His gift; give in to His story,
And eternal life for your soul, forevermore,
Will be your reward and the greatest of blessings.

Through all of creation we received His blessings;
From a pillar of salt to the salt of tears
Of forgiveness; with love forevermore;
Accepting as glorious reality, not a dream,
A virgin birth, crucifixion, and His promised return story
That proclaims, with acceptance and faith freedom of sins debt.

My sins are gone, a debt paid in blood and tears;
A Lamb gave me blessings greater than any dream;
I am part of the living story of my God’s gift; forevermore.

Tom

[jeannerené]

Tom,

After so many years of reading your poetry .... I feel as if I am discovering you all over again. Hearing your voice read what is in your heart is a pleasant gift to me and I hope to others here as well.

I would however, enjoyed and thought well over this poem even without the audio.

Thank you for sharing with us....

.j.

[davidmm]

Great stuff, Tom
You are proving an excellent master of the sestina form

[tom]

Thank you Jeanne. I have sort of set a challenge for myself to put all my poems to voice.. hehehe..I may have to retire again to get time for that.

David, thanks. I enjoy sestinas not only because of the challenge they offer, but when the 6 base words are given to me it offers a chance to explore what I think would relate to that person in my writing.

Tom