Time keeps flying, like birds in flocks
Across the mountains, fields and rocks
O’er meadows wide midst giant hills
With rapid rivers, rushing rills
How wonderful to hear the sound
Of nature spreading all around
Be sure, our God is always there
To save each from this dark despair
Oh blesséd Lord, You do not fail
And with Your help, all will avail!
Our tears are flowing down like rain
With cheeks pressed hard on window pane
Each throat is tight and cannot breathe
And struggles hard to find relief.
The madness now does seize us all
From sources which demand our fall
Our hearts are dying one by one
When will this agony be done ?
This land of beauty and great wealth
Our citadel of strength and health
Is under seige by evil force
Oh Captain, do reverse this course !
The wheels of time turn slowly round
Wherein the scale of life is found
The hours are counted one by one
Until each lonely day has done.
We’ll dream our dreams and pray that we
Accept the rule, freedom’s not free
Oftimes the cost goes far beyond
A price of which we are not fond.
Since discipline is what it takes
And safety is the rule it breaks
We’ll try again to make it clear
The only thing to fear is fear !
What would You do to save us from
The storm we know is soon to come
How will You guard us, help us rise
Above this hell that’s in disguise ?
We need You now, teach us to care
That we may all Your wisdom share !
What madness has pursued us here
Instilling each one’s greatest fear
Of life and limb or illness known
That by the air is being sown ?
What must we do to save our world
From all this grief that has been hurled ?
There is a numbness that I feel
An emptiness that’s so unreal
Sensation lost and caring less
All part of my renewed distress
I am so weak, my strength is gone
Great effort just to carry on.
Oh how I wish to stronger be
And stand up to adversity
Perhaps one day I’ll find success
With God to teach me all the rest !
Rage, rage against the coming storm
Its days are here before too long
Look to the sky, approaching morn
Ere their currents become too strong.
The times are changing oh, so fast
As all our values soon get lost
Into one role they shall be cast
With no way left to count the cost !
I see the willows in the wood
The branches wave like willows should
They sweep the air in mock surprise
To shake the dreamdust from my eyes
For dreaming is what I do best
When I no longer can protest
The world about me and its pain
That cries aloud again, again
Oh Blessed Lord, have mercy please
I come to You on bended knees
Help save me from old Satan’s might
Should he discover me some night !
Too many must risk life and limb
In foreign lands beyond the rim
Let’s return them all home at last
And bury disputes of the past
We need once more a brand new start
A smarter way, a bigger heart
Tis time to lift our eyes above
Seek greater wisdom from God’s love
Apply His ethics one by one
And keep His law until we’ve done !
We do not know through all these years
A time so full of angst and fears
Is this the war from days of old
That ages have this story told
The one the prophets have declared
For which we now must be prepared.
Whomever dreamt that we would be
Faced by this great calamity,
May God have mercy on our souls
Help us secure our end time goals !
My words are so piled up inside
I cannot find a place to hide
Sometimes I think I will explode
If I should drop this heavy load.
But who am I to judgement make
About what will or will not break
How’d I manage to live so long
Without the lyrics of the song ?
This God I love does understand
And led me thus far by the hand
He’s taught me all the rules I know
My true Rock and Safe Place to go !
In dreams we find life’s small escape
Some dreams are meant to keep us safe
While arms are meant to wrap around
And keep us warm with love unbound.
How wonderful this world would be
Wrapt up in God’s divinity !
The Word of God shines bright and clear
Sincerity rings on the ear
And leads us to the proper way
To mend our lives as we do pray.
The lessons learned and manners taught
Are those that have our freedom bought
If we accept this gift He gave
He’s promised all, our souls He’ll save !
Hail to our heroes great or small
Thanks for safety they bring us all
And here’s to those who sacrifice
To make our lives comfy and nice
Kudoes all who save this nation
Giving cause for celebration.
The warriors who braved the fight
And share with us the country’s might
May God bless them and keep them safe
Do to their actions we have faith
For after all, the same as we
They follow rules that keep us free !
Through all these years and all the wars
That caused such grief and gave us pause
Too many centuries have passed
Each one’s been sadder than the last
Help us to find a safer shore
Perhaps to even up the score
Oh Lord above, look down on we
Your children seeking sanctity !
A garden is that special place
Where hope and fear meet face to face
Where dreams are made or fall apart
And courage wins when tears depart.
An island in a lifelong storm
Where each must to their strength perform
A place of peace where God resides
And answers prayers and love provides !
I hear the train move on the track
I think it says ” click-clack, click-clack “,
And wings upon the breeze to here
Appearing to be ever near.
Our journey soon will reach its end
Without our luggage or dear friend
We’ve bid goodbye as trav’lers do,
Goodbye, so long and toodle-oo !
Oh hear the sounds that fill the air
Of children laughing everywhere
The glist’ning snow keeps falling down
Windblown to cover all the ground.
E’er softly while they drift and blow
O’er scenes observed now cloaked in snow
If you should wish to venture there
Dress warmly and please do take care !
When the time comes at last and I open the door
When the magic is gone and my heart hits the floor
May the Lord up above and His minions below
Comprehend how I’ve grown and joys that I know
As I go to a place that is far better still
With a mind that is clear and a far simpler will !
One page of life too soon will close
Beyond our fingers and our toes
‘Twill pass again this way no more
Without a tally or a score.
We must accept the burning fact
That there will be no turning back
Despite the depth or max of pain
We shall not pass this way again.
The time has come to file away
Those memories of yesterday
Let’s place them in our private space
That God and time will ne’er erase !
Praise God above for only He
Does have the power to set us free
In every storm He is the Port
That we must seek if we are caught.
Without His love we are remiss
His Word brings us eternal bliss
There is this path that does unwind
That only God can help us find !
Oh how I wish that there might be
An angel watching over me
To keep my life safe from great harm
Or when I err, sound an alarm.
Perhaps an angel on standby
To comfort me if I should cry
Or if the night is extra bold,
Warm hands to shield me from the cold.
Perchance if I wish hard enough
The path ahead won’t be so rough,
Whatever help God offers me
I shall accept most gratefully !
A rose once in a garden grew
Nurtured by love and morning dew
Its flower so sweet beyond compare
Which God and all the angels shared
A beauty rare enough indeed
To comfort all who have the need.
The Rose of Sharon was the name
And from the fields that’s where He came
A beauty which reflects today
In all we know, in every way
The strength and wisdom that survives
It’s how we know God’s still alive !
The mist of morn is so discreet
It waddles in on soft cat feet
And sidles up without a peep
While much of life is still asleep,
All cuddled up wrapt in a quilt
That covers one up to the hilt
And close the eyes for one more snore
Before today bursts through the door !
The dark we’ve seen is bleak and bold
Its purpose is too bare and cold
This world we live in lacks the care
Who opts to choose to reside there ?
Where does one go to seek a life
When all about face nought but strife
It’s not too late there’s still some time
To save us from such godless crime ?
There is one place that we may hide
To keep us free from fears outside,
Tis only God who knows the way
To guide our lives both night and day !
Sometimes the world seems quite enraged
While I am far from full engaged
With all the trappings we require
To feed our hearts smallest desire.
What’s happened to old fashioned ways
Like the joy of unfettered days
Help me please to stay on the track
I need some one to watch my back !
The storms of winter blow wet and wild
Enough to threaten both man and child
With the fury of weather’s power
Enough to caution both day and hour.
God’s creatures must hide or run away
As these conditions seem here to stay
There appears to be little to do
But sit back and say a prayer or two !
There is a place beyond our dreams
Where life is peaceful so it seems
But nature never is at rest
It struggles long to keep abreast
We cannot claim we do not know
It follows all where ere we go.
The world itself can make no change
Without man’s aid to rearrange
The complications that we see
Placed there by inhumanity !
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Claire V. Bogdanos 