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Serenity Ranch : Participant created works

We are fortunate to have some creative and talented people visit Serenity Ranch.We decided to periodically post some of their works to our blog. Today we have a hard hitting poem by JW. Please note the poem is in its original form and has not been re-formatted in any way.

 

 

 

Marry Me

Marry me, Marry me, his words implore

Repeat, repeat his voice gets hoarse

The loved that burned is now replaced

By booze and lies he has not faced

 

My heart is like a tortured chamber

Once filled with joy, now only anger

He says he knows I’ll be his wife;

I’ll save him from his war-torn life

 

He says, “ Your beauty lies not in your stare,

Nor in the graces of God’s care.”

He states with such simplicity:

“ Your beauty is love explicitly.”

 

He continues to cry and pleads me to see

That my beauty is more than he’ll ever be

“ You hear, then speak, then follow through

Your action wade past the stench of this slew.”

 

My heart it screams, and pleads, and prays

My body aches for days upon days

My spirit searches for a God I can’t see

My love, you’ve fallen don’t bring down me.

 

MY GOD! I scream in a fit of rage

“ He has a son, a life, why does he choose to be caged?”

And in the silence I hear a whisper

Something like the brush of slippers

 

“My Child,” God says like a gentle wind,

“He is not ready, his light is dimmed

He chose to drink his fears away

And leave my grasp, Just for today.”

 

“ Until my child comes back to me,

He’ll live a life of misery.

“Let go, Let God!” You’ve all been told

Surrender control, not bargain your soul

 

The brush of slippers disappears

But, before their gone, I quietly hear:

“ Until he can see his beauty inside, sobriety he will not find”

Marry me, Marry me the voice implores

Alas, I say no, before the divorce

Alas, I say no, I can handle no more

Alas, I say no, and my heart God restores.

 

 

~JW