Re-Vision
On looking over “Eight-hours” one
(I thought revision was all done),
I saw another aspect clear,
Which brought to me instinctive fear –In TCK my focus was
’Bout Echoland – to front because
A backlog of my being lay
As festered sore – no surgeon’s blade –As yet had lanced that wound of puss,
To let the healing come to us
Both me, the TCK one here,
And other TCK’s so dear –To me, as fellow inmates, long
Co-trapped within – no prison song
Of “Jubilee – Christ set us free”
For up ’till then it was not me.But now I see more clearly still –
We’re pulled from world, and all its swill,
Up with the Christ to realms above
And sit, at first, within His love.But then we get assigned to go
Back to the earth, as now we know
The larger plan of which we’re part –
So off we go – excitement starts!But now I see as I look close,
That Echoland has “Was” at most;
And loop (I now appreciate)
Has “Is” as part which I relate –To as the part that lies ahead
For several double-years, instead
Of TCK as base for me –
Loop trumps my culture – now I see!My “Simple way of seeing life”
And, “Where I’ve been” (part with my wife),
Is loop – not Echoland in fact,
Though it’s a part – now I see that.So “Distance”, and “Perspective” mine,
With “Point of view”, and “Hope” sublime,
My “Focused” “Way of doing life”,
Have been subsumed – which seems all right.So trouble’s impacts fade away
From normal life for me each day;
Some hardships drove me to my knees,
But now, in You, are but a breeze.Now photo-walk and photo-talk
(Augmented text, by which I walk),
Let peace, and joy, and harmony,
Attend my walk, O Lord, with Thee.So “Things in life which central lie”,
Get done by me “Through camera’s eye”;
“With firmness now is beauty grasped”
“Poured through my lens by You” at last.“Your Word” is “Central to all this”,
As You express Your photo-kiss
To others, now Your Word’s alive
In me, through me – such great surprise!navigation