With Apology To John Newton Poem by L MILTON HANKINS
With Apology To John Newton
Can you tell me how it happened to me?
What brought me from shadow into light
Where faith once struggled inside my breast,
Now is peace beyond the sacred blight.
Can you tell me how it happened to me?
While I longingly stood on the broken shore
looking at the vastness of space beyond
Then saw an infinite future as so much more
Than religion's fabled heaven or hell.
Can you tell me how it happened to me?
That once I was lost, but now am found
That once I was blind, but now I see.
The time about which I fervently speak
Came while pondering on earth from space
Seeing how exceptionally insignificant I am
When my smallness looks me squarely in the face.
Can you tell me how it happened to me? While I longingly stood on the broken shore looking at the vastness of space beyond Then saw an infinite future as so much more
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4/22/2024 10:12:56 PM # 1.0.0.1119
a Quatrain poem to John Newton abolitionist, the Captain of slave ships and investor of trade; hidden many answers for all these essential Questions has raised by the poet, nice form with deep philosophy meaning. 10+