Royston Allen Poems

There is a place where I can go
A place of quietness that I know
A place of serenity and peace
Where sorrows and all sadness cease.
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We start life with a cry
and end it with a sigh
as with our closing breath
we enter into death
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If Christ had not died then I would be lost
and I would have to pay sins awful cost.
When called to stand before the judgement throne;
naked and exposed and all on my own.
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They raised the whip with such hatred
and scourged His back until it bled.
Lash by lash my sins price was paid
as by each stripe His back was flayed.
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The Altogether Lovely One
and the Fairest of the fair
The King of kings and Lord of lords
to Whom no one can compare.
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His soul overwhelmed He began to pray,
'If it's possible then take it away.'
'I want to live and I don't want to die.'
'Father let this cup of death pass me by.'
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Thirty coins of silver paid for a kiss!
The price of betrayal was no more than this,
for Judas came with an armed mob that day
and was determined his Lord to betray.
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No light only the darkest shades.
No colours just blackness pervades.
There's no movement of any kind.
I cannot see for I am blind.
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Patching up the old is not Jesus' way.
Old and new together will only fray.
Jesus said, 'Behold I make all things new'
and these tattered garments just will not do.
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