My Soundtrack

Composer chose my life to write...

Hearing my music, in his heart

Stanzas, instruments of his art

Cantata arranged with all parts.

Signature on the staff began...

With simple scale and catchy runs

Salvation, childhood, carefree fun

With allegro, begun, soon done!

Chords and triads grew more complex...

Strong disciplines with practice, learned

Depth and beauty enhanced, discerned

Biblical highlighted patterns.

Harmony then morphs to discord...

Tempo steps to agitato

Affliction, painful, dark shadows

Hard, sad valley of death's sorrows.

Chromatically with semitones...

God's compassion enwraps my soul

Rich rhapsody, empathy flows

God's solace for others to glow!

At length, the tone melts to mellow...

The volume softly fades away

Our story music'lly conveyed

The glory of God's love displayed!

Two Ways to Age

Love poured from family on him

Laughing the lonely hours away

All reminisce to hearts' full brim

Yesteryear blending with today.

He used to skate and throw baseballs

Played with his kids, and then their kids

With walker now, he dare not fall

Towards heaven, his spirit skips!

His loved ones pray for one more day

To hear his soft and tender voice

To feel his shaky grasp again

Soon, they will weep, but he'll rejoice!

Arthritis stabs and so he jabs

Pushing his loved ones out the door

Waning strength fades and so he grabs

Dangling threads still in his control.

Retired, his miserly arms grasp

Pinching each penny, lest he lose...

Dependent on others? Ah...gasp!

Plan B stinks, foolish, watch him prove.

His loved ones pray, “Lord, how's today?

No pain or misery's above”

Not his way but heaven's highway

This grumpy one, all try to love!

Our Fragmented Path

From dot-to-dot-to-dot, God draws

Each random spot part of his plot

Like sparkling constellations on...

The night's dark ominous backdrop.

Repeating octaves on the keys

Rumble in on rolling thunder

Surprising twists spur this journey

Mixing victories with blunders.

From pit to palace, then to jail

Forgotten by the butler's dream

Providence clocked ev'ry detail

Embracing Joseph in God's scheme.

From pastures green with his loved flock

To giant-slaying with a stone

To hiding out in caves, a lot

At last, King David, on his throne!

From rags to fabulous gowns dressed

Doomed queen on goodly food, she feasts

On-cue, fouled Haman's plot addressed

Obscured, God's heart and arm unleashed.

From poor smelly manger make-shift

To sweating blood drops, through the night

Then, nailed to Roman cross, uplift

Our Lord's life planned in God's foresight.

Our souls too ache, in trials placed

Sensing that God's misplaced our name

Would rather race to the next space...

While God, not us, our saga frames!

He reigns Sovereign of all dark skies

His love walks with us as we roam

Disguised to our short-sighted eyes

This path, though broken, leads us home!