Oldy---but a "goodie"...I just like it! Amen!

 

A “New”-Reality!?---How!?...&-Why!?

(an-awakening!?)

 

I was busy just-opening one of my big safe-deposit boxes in any-bank

Held myriad gold-coins to gain my-horde as I enjoy special high-rank

 

Suddenly like a lightning-flash my-mind gray-fogged in a cosmos-swirl

Quick-standing on a muddy-water river-bank before a fragile native-girl

 

A-tan burlap-sack covered her shivering thin-body hunched against a tree

In bony-arms she cradled a ragged-blanket holding a cold-infant set-free

 

Big brown-eyes stared-lifeless absent any further-want to shed sorrow-tears

Poverty & War & worse-poverty had stolen her-youth of a-hard fifteen-years

 

Any anchor-roots refused to-sprout early-ripped away from nurture-soil

Enough-to-eat for day-to-day survival fending-off troubles, snares & toil

 

I had witnessed lost-Hope! “desperation” when any industry-Captain fell

My adrift-girl seemed but a wraith with a story she could-not possibly-tell

 

This proud-heart lived above any-fray but at the pathetic-sight it fair-melted

Money! & Power! I celebrated-life very-fine! Wine! Women! & Song!-belted!

 

Hollow-lithe skeleton quaked in abject-despair as an angelic-spirit resigned

Death-of-the-baby had severed soul-from-body in an evil-anguish assigned

 

I knew-not what-to-say having-had no experience facing a vacant-lost ghost

Gold-coins in me-hand held-out to her seemed an un-Christian insulting-boast

 

Corse-vile Money! She could neither-understand nor-want nor covet-in-sin

And---I had no worthy gesture-offering…I knew-not where ’ere she’d-been

 

Seemed-I might have been-able to assist in some small treasure-measure way

My-wealth! Business-acumen! Cunning-wit! Failed! Any-aid? Held-at-bay!

 

I wanted to tell the-girl “Life is like the river-water bringing green-abound.”

I wished to hold her close like a father-comfort---but…Courage not-found

 

Didn’t-matter! ---The damsel saw-me-not!...Her senses halted-in-abeyance

An evil-vacant loss claimed her dismissed-spirit/soul in-lost Hope!-defrayance

 

Not-a-single-word did the Young-lady utter nor even acknowledge-me

Her-situation spoke-volumes that even a blind-man ought begin-to-see

 

 

A solid-clunk awoke-me as a heavy gold-coin slapped at the metal-box

Departing yon-“fog” back-to-some-reality time-faded from-spirit-clocks

 

I soon-embarked a-journey continent-bound toward a muddy-water river

Me generous-purpose finding yon Hope-less Miss to be a Salvation-giver

 

Allow-I bear-cumbrance your-burden and your-strife? (1:12)-Deuteronomy

Found first-friend fine-fellowship Faith! Family! Freedom!-Philanthropy

 

Hope! Comfort! Inspiration! Only-just vacant-dreams of resolute-fantasy to-Pray?

A faint glimmer-spark within a faded-eye Redemption!-Salvation! One-soon-day!

 

For blessings thee have---eternal-Thankful! For vacant-desires…Deny!-Eschew!

Selfless!-Think! –Live! -Love! Satiate-thy-spirit appreciating Grace! Thee-knew!

 

Live! Love! Laugh! Focus-contemplate!

Vigilant-be! No-one’s future is ever-late!

 

Faith! Family! Freedom! Might just be all there really---Is!

In one-eternal-instant the only mercy-blessing will be…His!

 

For one-fine-day might “There: Go-I!” save God’s-Love! not just-away too-far

My eternal-Redemption! Love! My-Salvation! Dared-Dreams! Pray-I reach-par!

 

When ’ere haughty-Pride! Shines a bright golden-crown bejeweled luster-glow

My-(simple-humble) desired-spirit revisits a wretched native-soul river-review show

 

My transgression-sin confessed: I might not have been the very-best I-could?

 Any-Redemption chance: Tried keep Commandments-10! Like I knew I-should!

Possible-Salvation!? For such lost-soul? Spread Happy!-Grace! To-all I-would!

 

And---one fine-day…in judgment-eternal may I-stand Proud!-tall relief

I planted 12k-trees---bequeathed-smiles…quelled another’s wicked-grief

 

There!---upon a muddy-water riverbank…a witness vile-conclusion of-despair

Two-souls!---One-dead! One-challenged!...Two-spirits a rejoiced-in-Grace! share

 

For any and all I’ve-been and am and on-the-’morrow-dawn Hope! might try-to-be

In fairness Honor!-Truth! sacred- life and Love! allow me-spirit crystal-clarity to-see

 

In every-challenge encourage Good!---Better!...Striving eternal to-attain the very-Best!

Pray-I! My thoughts and words and deeds deliver Love!-Peace! upon horizon’s-crest

 

Amen! Amen! & Amen!