Adversity's Bridge

Moving shadows in the night Revealed within my path, Adversity's bridge looms ahead Beckoning with wrath. Girders loosed by rust and ruin Beneath the shifting sands, Cascading rapids scale the pier To claim the ones it can. Calamity waits for all that pass, Forbidding them to cross. Broken dreams and wasted hope Will be their final cost. Prevailing still of silenced prayer From those that fell before, Adversity's bridge has cast them all Onto despairing shores. Constant spans of timbered truss Abandoned, without care. Wailing sounds of yielded hope Linger for me there. Beneath the buckling girders boil, A chasm. Stirred again. Foreboding sound of bubbling rifts Prey on my sad chagrin. 'Death of Hope' I hear your calls, In violent streams they flow. Your rivers deep have beckoned me To despairing shores below. But Lo, a different call I hear, In Him, my faith secure. The long embrace of His true Love Gives hope that will endure. I brace my step upon this Rock, That does not shift like sand. My hope was sealed one day, long passed, With nails, into His hands. He quickens me to walk within The strength of His own Spirit. A sure embrace in times like these Protects, that I may bear it. Behold! My Hope is at your end, O' Bridge of ruin and rust. In steady step I now can pass, With Him, the One I trust. Rivers long, within my path, We surely meet again. As Bridges of Adversity Draw me near to HIM.