Hope

How do you keep it together when it's not together?
When pieces of the puzzle are scattered about like shards of dust?
How do you keep moving when everything is standing still?
Still like a statue which knows not that time passes by?
How do you keep praying when there is deafening silence?
Silence that cuts deep like a vengeful knife thrown by a brute foe?
Hoping when hope deferred makes the heart sick?
A sick heart is heavy to carry like stones of heavy burden
How do you breathe under the deep dark waters of circumstances?
Hold your breath and hold on to straws, the futility of despair
How do you rejoice when saddened by reality?
Count it all joy when joy is lost?
Hold on when you are slipping away?
Away like sands in an hour glass.
Walk in the light when the night is dark and full of terrors?
Smile when the smile is swallowed in a frown?
Dance when the music is gone and turned into a din of confusion?
How do you answer the questions when answers are elusive?
How do you stop asking the questions
When the questions are demanding an answer?
I do not know what to do
But my eyes are on you Lord
He is able to save from the fire
But even if he doesn't
My hope will forever cling to him
Questions burn like a furnace
But in the inferno
Jesus stands with me
And all I need to know
Is that he is here with me
And because he is who he says he is
All things will work  together for good

Copyright © Trinity Chasara | Year Posted 2023

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