"The Last Round"
Expression’s bandied ’round a lot –
“Last round” (in chamber’s all I got);
“Last round” (before the bar shuts down);
“Last round” (in game of life) is found –To be a puzzle to the folks
Who saw my life more as a joke
Than one they led – “Eternally”;
Effect they thought they’d have – not me.For I did route circuitous;
Did things which seemed adventurous;
They thought they had the upper hand,
But long-view did not under-stand.She mixed last novel with the rest –
The one in which I had addressed
What Redvers-time was all about,
Through which perspective came about.But in his sermon I got height –
My point of view adjusted right;
“They did not take – I laid it down;
And in that fact the truth is found.“It not for naught was done that way;
‘Credentials lost’ was double-play –
They had to go, so, loss that way
Would useful be, in Me – My way.”Lord in his words reminder was
Of awful stuff that time – the cause
Of Maundy Thursday being to me
No joke in life You live – through me.I’d clear forgotten Easter time
In Redvers – laid credentials mine
Down at Your feet – You asked me to
In silence walk Your way, as Stu.I did that blind; ’tis often thus –
We see in part through worldly fuss;
You ask not clarity of view,
But walk, one hand held tight by You.The other? Stretching back behind
To hold another of my kind,
Who needs be led from satan’s trap;
Released in Jubilee like that.Lord, Easter lilies speak of joy;
They have since I was just a boy;
I’ve learned that resurrection day
Can only come through death – the way –You went Yourself in Your last round,
When in the end on cross was found,
“King of the Jews”, “The Prince of Peace”;
Task finished there, you were released –One hand held fast in Father’s right;
You’re right stretched back through darkest night –
“Take hold whomever would be free –
This is Your day of Jubilee!”So too with us at Easter time –
Each year some more extend the vine
Through whom the living blood still flows,
As more from hell to heaven go.Thanks Lord for this.
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