Old poem I wrote a while back about my salvation

I just found this on my Facebook while going through and deleting old stuff. Thought I'd keep it and share it.

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Tumbling and falling from high above

Bruising my face on the rocks

I've seen the light and I've heard the call

I have a way out, my escape is here.

Addictively and sweetly drawn backwards and down

Faces in Heaven fall as I bury my head in the sand.

Sweet, sweet sand. Fine and soft... beckoning down

Into the depths, where I return.

Voices of comfort whisper to me in the darkness

In tones suave and powerful. Something inside

In anger returns a challenge angry and strong.

One choice lays before me, yet no time to choose.

Flight or fight, fight or flight,

Destined to lose either way. Ironic that I

Should grow and bloom in my youth yet fall

Into such decay, decline, and desolation.

I perceived myself as alone and in need

Anything seemed better than my wounded state.

Caught up in my pride, I elevated myself

And thought my case was the worst of all.

Yet I was not alone. Beneath my life and pain

Was a stirring both strange, yet familiar

I watched and I waited in ignorance and bliss

Hoping I could win my own wretched fate.

No reservations, no compromise!

Colors and life before my eyes

Soaring from far below to the sky

A love made itself known, for astounded, I

Was no longer alone! Nor never was!

Pried from my cross, and saved because

The Power of LOVE stole my breath

So His I am now, in life and in death.

The Glory of that moment condensed into One

As my heart skipped a beat and I realized He won!

Grasping the shaft of the cross that I bore

He broke it in two, nullifying my war.

The pieces aside, their power now dead,

There was love in His eyes that like fire burned red.

With passion and purpose, He turned and He ran

Down a path pre-prepared since the world began.

He beckoned to follow, so chase Him I did.

The demons and ghouls, for my soul, let them bid!

In joy and assurance, I simply don't care

And with evil behind, I soar in the air.

So together we walk in peace and as friends

Our love is eternal, it just never ends.

Without it, I lose and my mission is lost

Yet save me He did, no matter the cost!