On a journey, tedious,
I bear a heavy load.
Was hoping the trip would be easier;
but I walk a wearisome road.
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Is there no one to help me
carry all this weight?
I’m feeling suffocated.
My heaviness is my fate.
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What’s that I’m dragging behind me?
Why, that’s my lifelong luggage.
I keep a record of EVERY THING,
then I store it up as baggage.
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Inside you’ll find my memories.
Go ahead, pop the lid.
Everything ever done to me;
and everything I ever did.
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All my hurts, all my woes;
all my wayward ways.
All my questions, all my doubts;
all my nights and days.
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But, recently someone mentioned freedom;
the kind that’s genuine, and lasts.
Oh, boy, what I wouldn’t give
for freedom from my past!
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So lately, I’ve been struggling,
and thinking in my mind.
Maybe, just maybe, NOW is the time
to simply leave it behind.
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“… Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,” Philippians 3:13
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