Activity

This one doesn’t exactly have a syllable/word-per-line pattern, but here’s one I’ve been working on called “At Earth’s End”

When the sun kisses the ground goodnight

When the earth turns its final time

When the moon shines bright

and steals the fame from the stars

When the black veil of night

masks the earth from the worlds beyond

 

The planets declare farewell

And bow before a standing crowd

And down falls the curtain of night

Painted with stars and a moon –

Each a world of their own

 

The sky

Closes its eye

And bids its last

“goodbye”

 

Leaving a dark yet peaceful world behind

For the last time

. . .

The world awakes from its nap

The sky opens her eyes –

and the Son blinds them

 

The world, no longer peaceful, rumbles at its Maker

The people run in fear

The ball of fire threatens

To kiss the earth again

Unclouded and unveiled

The fugitive runs –

But the bride of Christ comes

Towards the Groom that awaits her –

 

The King of Glory

Once dressed in red

Clothed His bride

With His own white

And on that day, black covered the sky –

Then the veil was torn in two

Now, we await the day when the earth’s

Curtain, too, will split in two

And the Groom will swoop up the white-gowned rescued

 

The linens of white are her something borrowed

The sad life she knew

Her something blue

The nature she had, her something old

Endless awe is her something new

Passing from well-spent life she knew

Into everlasting honeymoon

 

In that moment, she awakens

Glad for the life that wasn’t wasted

That the life she suffered was not in vain

For suffered, much more, was the Lamb Who was slain

She was glad for every day she lived

For the One Who died for the life to give

All the working and waiting

And praying and hoping

And weeping and screaming

Was worth all the days she stayed

 

And as His mercy culminates

And as the Son’s beams permeate

The light of His presence, more than enough

To fill this eternal session of praise

That begins at salvation

With no end date

 

Her eternal destiny sealed

She was glad she waited

For His Glory –

finally revealed