Linda M. Crate- Three Poems

of anger & forgiveness

 

we're not as innocent as we

want everyone to believe

for we persecuted Your son to a

death He didn't deserve,

and so when i see people always trying

to play the part of martyr when

they are the bully

i cannot help but become incensed;

but You tell me to forgive them

as You have me, 

but i'll admit this isn't always easy for me

sometimes i want to hold their sins

against them;

but that isn't loving as You do and so i have

learned to swallow my pride and 

crucify my ego to forgive where You would have me

and to walk away from people when i have to

because You have given me a perfect

peace i do not want to forget.

love & respect 

 

You were always there 

when no one else could be bothered to care,

and You dried the tears from my cheeks

put me to sleep

when no one was there to hold me

or comfort me in their arms;

and You remind me

that my worth is infinite even if the world cannot

see it that You can and that makes me 

determined to find a partner that 

loves me as You do and i can love him as You

do me;

but i will never settle for anyone who disrespects

You because they would likely

disrespect me, too.

awesome enormity 

 

You made the heavens and the stars

and every ocean wave

every sunset and sunrise and smile of

a kind stranger,

You made love and laughter and You have

spared me from so many disasters;

it is so hard to fathom sometimes how someone

with such infinite power and strength and 

enormous arms

could care for so much for me 

when i am but a gaunt footstep in this world;

yet You do,

and i feel Your presence when the tears won't stop

flowing and when laughter leaves my lips

You are there to encourage me

so i can encourage and love others as you have me

You have given me perfect peace even when

i am in the eye of the storm,

and i could never describe how awesome You are 

to the world in enough words.