I was so numb
To all that I used to feel
The pain was gone
But the void was so much worse
I laid awake so many nights
Thinking about my fate
And what would happen to my soul
If I made that perennial decision
My life changed by chance
And the freetime by others
When I came accross the lines
That, call it foreordination or just luck,
Thawed my heart
I broke down in tears
Not knowing what had happened
I didn't know if my sins were forgiven
If I had really been shown the light
But I felt it. Delcious pain and sweet bliss
Emotions long lost came back to me.
Even a beaten dog,
Is greater than the carcas of a once mighty lion
Even my feeble attempts at living
Will be far more majestic than my surrender
So now I walk
Upon the rough gravel path
That shall lead me to my destiny
Sure of myself and of my faith
Because of a stranger's words
It doesn't take the Bible, Qur'an nor Torah to save
For all those works I would of shoved away
Crying that I never should of been
Sobbing that I couldn't continue to be
It took a stranger's simple words,
An innocent, child-like prayer for forgiveness
To show me I can do this.
Now, I bequith to the Lord
My life as a living sacrifice
My devotion I show
By merely breathing when I wish to suffocate
I listened to that simple stranger
But now I smile and I wonder
Wasn't Jesus once a simple stranger, too? |
Submission Name: My Simple Stranger
