Poetry

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She Keeps on Walking

Here is a poem I wrote about how we need to reach out to people. This could happen if we don't reach out the people who don't have a friend:

She yearned for someone to love her
Her blue eyes are searching for the truth
Nobody has ever hugged her
Or told her that they loved her
No, they just walk on by
Her once innocent smile has faded into a scowl
From the outside, she appears tough
But inside she is as insecure as ever
She yearns to have a friend to laugh with
Yet, she’d rather be alone than to get hurt again
Doesn’t everyone need someone they can trust?
She passed by the church after the service
No one spoke
She kept on walking with the same blue eyes filled with tears
"Will someone ever love me? Why am I even here?"
She keeps on searching for the truth
Someone to trust and some sort of something to lean on
She decided to go to church.
She yearned for love.
Taking a seat by herself in the back pew,
Was a girl with eyes so blue
A girl with a hard life searching
Welcome comes to everyone at church while she sits alone
Smiling and shaking everyone’s hand but hers
Everyone ignored her
Couldn’t they see past her outward appearance, and see that she needed a friend?
The ONE who bore her sins
He would never leave her
As soon as she gets home, she bawls into her pillow
She was looking for the truth
But nobody has ever showed her
She needs God
But nobody reached out to her to demonstrate His love
She walks on by with tears in her searching eyes
She found a guy she thought could fill her pain
But he only left her standing there in life’s rain
Yearning for someone to love her
She walks on by with tears filled in her blue eyes

The Person in the Mirror

"God, sometimes it is as if I feel as if I am holding on so dear to some invisible things and not wanting to see the real thing. Broken and my heart bleeding, I come running. Running back into your arms of grace, and bowing at your nail pierced and blood stained feet.

I once held on to pride with a strong grip. However, now I’m tossing it into the shore. Where I will see it never more. I’m determined to live for so very much more. In humbleness, my tears trickle onto Your feet. Letting go of the things I tried to hide.

Giving up all my fears, I ask you to change my heart. Mold me into the person I am to become. The person I see in the mirror isn’t me. It’s been said that sometimes we have to lose ourselves to find ourselves. What are my virtues and how will I be able to hear your voice? Hear it over all of life’s noise? I want to be so love with You, my Savior. This is my desperate cry.
Jesus, you are the grace of my life. Without You, where would I be? I can’t go a single day without Your precious love.

I realized that I had to let go of EVERYTHING before You could turn me into the best me that I could possibly be. I had to let go of all my fears in order to hear Your voice and to know and find Your will. I was letting other things overtake me where I no longer had a photograph of the person I wanted to be. To gain integrity and to become the person God designed me to be, I had to kneel in surrender.

I found myself, Jesus. Now things don’t always seem clear, but I rest assured, knowing my Savior is ever so near. I no longer conform to this world, but I ask you to transform me by the renewing of my mind so that I may be able to test and approve what Your will is.

It’s like I can feel You shining through me. How can I keep from shining? How can I keep from singing? You are my life. I see Your grace ready to forgive. I am learning what is pure and noble. I saw what I didn’t want my character to become. Also, You showed me Your love. Most of all, I learned that NOTHING is impossible with You. I resolve to do hard things for Your glory. I just found myself. There is no turning around. My feet are planted on this solid ground.

And Jesus, when I look in the mirror tonight, I like what I see, because I see You staring right back at me. "

Written by Stacie

My Poem

I am a child of the KING
Who am I? That I don’t know alone. Jesus, why am I here? Where have I been?
I only wish to be near You. To be near your wounded side. Who am I? And why
did You, my King, have to die? Thank you for you love. But tell me, who who am I?

It’s like I’ve lost myself. I miss the old days. Tears fall in puddles all around me, as I miss your touch. Hearing you say "I love you", I ask You, "Where am I? Have I been running from you this long? To be in your shadow is where I belong. That is why I am singingthis song."

Who should I be? Who am I now? At your nail pierced feet, I run back to you and surrender. When I heard Your voice. And I saw Your smile. I ran into Your open arms. Tears filled my eyes and trickled down your loving face. It was in that moment, I realized who I was. Who I am. And WHOSE I am.

I’m falling in love with the King of the Universe. I sing to You my song of praise. That’s what I am, and who I am. Yeah, that is who I will always be. At your side is where I will forever be. That’s my only desire. Everything else is fading away into utter nothingness. Yeah, I fall face down at your blood stained feet. Now I know that I’m not alone. Yeah,you showed me that I am in You, and You are in me. That is who I am.

Who am I ? Jesus forever I am Yours. And forever will forever will forever be!