Paradise Regained! Poem by John Knight

Paradise Regained!

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From whence this slow meandering
Of distant and yet ever inner thought?
Would this of all my best endeavour
Fail me now and ever come to nought?
By reaching out and almost touching Heaven
I thought I'd found the sweet and pure at last,
But NO with mocking cry - it has eluded me
Shown the futility and dross of all my past!

And yet beyond - there seems some hidden destiny
Within this tangeld web - as yet unseen.
A glimse of hope a succour to my misery
A glimpse of Heaven and what might have been!
I know I never can traverse this way again
I crawl a cracked and fissured broken path
A road to nowhere - tinged with awesome pain
So please don't cry - Confusion is my rightful epitaph!

But anywhere there's life - there still is hope
And where there's hope - new life can spring again!
It's never over 'til the very end
The final verse and then the last refrain!
New life can grow - when watered by God's hand
New life can spring from bare infertile soil
Reward from God for life of endless toil?
YES! raised - restored - revived - renewed in Paradise at last I'll stand.

Dedicated to all those stuck in the tunnel of life and still unable to see the light at the end!

(John Knight- Colchester - September 2009)

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Janell Cressman 06 October 2009

wow, amazing, Most people forget how good they have it, lucky for them theres some poets to remind them, This is some how something i needed to hear, thanks John! !

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