poems [thoughts]

Frank Welder (fwelder@ccinet.ab.ca)
Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:56:04 -0600


Here is my try at poems.

LOOK TO ME
To you who are not here, to see me hang on the cross.
The tears that flow down my cheeks, as they mix with the blood.
I hang on the tree that I grew for me. As I hang here and look about.
I see the womb that carried me. The tears to her, are she knows who I AM.
The sorrow and pain , the sin and grief hang about Me as balls and chains.
As I turn to my friend, and say unto him behold my mother.
As he takes her in his arms I now realize what this death means to me.
As I hang here as a man the pain I feel you could not understand.
As my flesh cries out, my God why hast thou forsaken me.
I now know how it feels. To be alone in this world that is my own.
As I look about one turns to me, as I look to him the sorrow is about.
He says unto me, Lord remember me. Yet thorough it all my plan is to be.
I preapared a place for you and Me. Do not despair, I know your pain.
For it is shared within me. Be not ashamed to come to me.
My tears my blood I shed for thee. I am able to make thee whole. Look to Me!


THE ROSE

I look at the world as one huge garabage can.
And in the mist of that garabage grows a rose.
A rose that has received light and rain.
Despite the garabage that goes on destorying that rose.
The roots of that rose will be firm in the One who is yet to come.
But before He comes, the rose has to be ready.
The world has tried to fence others out and keep this rose
from receiving the light and rain.
In the midst of this garabage can the leaves beckon man to come.
The world has thought they have won.
But the One who has beckon us, is yet to come.
He will come to us with a heart that glows with His love.
Before He reaches for His rose, He will heal the leaves,
He will strength the stem and sharpen the thorns.
He will remove the stains, and red the petals shall be.
All the world will look up as the rose fair in love will stand.
At the fullness of the rose's bloom, it will be plucked and transplanted,
before His throne.

Eph 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith;
that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to
comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length,
and depth, and height;And to know the love of Christ,
which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all
the fulness of God.  Now unto him that is able to do exceeding
abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the
power that worketh in us, :21 Unto him be glory #in# the
church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.
Amen.

Frank & Michelle
2 Pe 3:18