What She Said

WHAT SHE SAID She said to me “You will not walk again.” But I say I will. Even if only atop waves That roll in over the shores continuously, Or waves thrown about in tempest and The invasions of such unforeseen storms as these. I was taken aback and I Shouted, “I don’t believe that!” So, she pronounced it again, “You will never walk again.” She was slashing at my paraplegic knees, trying to Wrench away my God-gifted hope: to tear from me My full armor of God: to cause me to doubt the true Love of God’s inseparable devotion as my ABBA! But I will keep working to walk again, perhaps less Briskly than I do now in company with angels, by The grace of the Holy Spirit and alongside Jesus Into a land far from the desolate, flat macadam To where her words transported me...For I SHALL walk on beyond lamentations, beyond Pacing on embers and ashes, to walking on The calmed waters after such doubt was spoken. **********. ************* ************ (C). Sally Young eslinger 8/2020 Peace