Life Lost, Regained

My heart was once so filled

full to bursting, and fulfilled

while all my life was pure

brimming with love and joy

intoxicated by beauty

fluttering with such ease

But when the storm came

The thunder cracked the sky

and the lightning split my eye

My life was blinded

to what I once was alive.

I lost the flame to my life

My veins lost their very pulse

My imagination was repulsed

Beauty was driven from my life

Love withdrew from my sight

The very throb of music so sincere

was lost to my once-attentive ears

Tormented weeks without end

I pressed in with no way to mend

My heart would swell and rupture

No more beauty could I capture

How I longed for love to flow anew

But my cup of life could hold nothing new

My heart lacked its very essence

With no capability for life anymore

I tried to tear my spirit from my soul

but the attempted fancies took such toll

With or without the soul, I was nothing

My existence was bereft of life and breath

My bleeding feet found solid ground

but my neglected spirit wept in pain

I fell on my face, burdened and alone

But I was lifted up by a Man who came

He told me who I was and who I'd be

He's making me love, sparking life's flame

Though my heart lost the essence of life

and nothing I knew would be as it was

This Man taught me to see in new degree

With His hands, reached into my soul

He tore from me what crippled me

He made me to love: all I'll have, all I've lost.

© copyright by Michèle Aimée Lahaie, 2009