To Follow Poem by Antoine Lavoisier

To Follow

Rating: 2.6


i'm not trying to make this/us difficult;
this is my own stupidity,
my own boy-ishness that keeps
all that i long for from bounding out.

what DO i long for?
well, that's the question!
but i've realized i cannot answer it.
i've realized that romanticism, these sunrises, can't work it.
i've realized even she cannot answer it.

i long to to be a man, yet i cannot see past
this cell I've been molded to.
i long to be His-His I say! -
i am afraid of growing old
without following my Savior.
yet i am so afraid of following.

to follow=to leave where i am;
to leave where i am=change;
change=what if? who am i? who is she? will she come too?

I long for You to make me a man...
To make me strong and steadfast.
Though, not by wordly measures,
not by success or by might or by wealth.
for i am through with shadowlands.

Jesus, I'm Yours.
I am on my face;
The night is long,
But there is joy in suffering!
There is joy in Your name!

Let us always be Yours, Lord!

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
R. S. Farris 25 February 2008

'...but by My Spirit, says the Lord.'

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