Sometimes this life here on earth is difficult and disappointing. This is a poem I wrote a couple months ago, as I gave thanks for God's eternal understanding.  

Sometimes life is

Hard.

Sometimes choices are

Overwhelming.

Do You know what it's like?

Drip, drip, drip.

Tears fall as the

Son of Man

Surrenders to the

Plan of His

Father.

"Not my will, but

Yours."

Sometimes disappointment

Crowds in.

Friends fail in their

Selfishness.

Do You realize how much it hurts?

Crow, crow, crow!

A rooster calls as the

Follower betrays the

Friend.

Somtimes my

Heart feels

Beaten and

Mistreated

Unjustly!

Do You know how that feels?

Slash, slash, slash!

A whip soars through the

Air, ripping the

Flesh from the

Holy One's

back.

Sometimes the

Road is

Narrow and

Rocky.

Sometimes I seem to posses

No more

Strength to

Continue.

Do You know that exhaustion?

Step, step, step.

The Savior slowly

Drags Himself up the

Hill,

Burdened with a heavy

Cross.

Sometimes my failure and

Sin refuses to

Leave;

It stares me in the

Face.

Can You understand that humiliation?

Bang, bang, bang!

A hammer pounds spikes into

Skin and

Bone.

A Redeemer is

Hung in

Shame, bearing the

Sins of

All.

Sometimes hope seems

lost.

Love and

Security feel

Non-existent.

Have You felt that despair?

Gasp, gasp, gasp.

Suffering in utter

Lonliness, the

Deliverer fights for every

Breath.

"My God, why have You

Forsaken

Me?"

Sometimes hurt cuts

Deep.

Sometimes forgiveness is

Hard to

Find.

Can You comprehend that pain?

Jeer, jeer, jeer!

Crowds mock and

Curse, rejecting their

Rescuer.

"Father, forgive them!

They don't know what they're doing!"

Sometimes this

World seems to be

Closing in;

Threatening to

Suck the

Life from my

Being.

Do You understand the

Weight of

Sin?

Yes.

Do You know the

Pain of

Rejection?

Yes.

Have You experienced

Total and

Hopeless

Defeat?

No!

You are the Conqueror!

You are the

Strength and

Joy that I

Need.

You understand

Me.

That is sufficient.