Note Fifteen

Note Fifteen

Draft 2

By: Chase L. Currie

 

I met Him

                On the pier,

                With a pair of,

                Holes in my,

                Heart.

 

I put my feet

                In the Summer water,

                Of a childhood fancy,

                Where I can,

                Only find smiles,

                Filled with Joy.

 

He gave me a

                Fishing pole,

                Under his yellow,

                Straw hat,

                We sat for,

                A while in,

                A quiet wind.

 

I met Him

                In a gallery,

                Of lost souls,

                Those who turned,

                Their backs,

                On His love,

                He did not weep,

                In front of me,

                But He did weep for them.

 

I met Him at a

                Coffee shop, alone and lost,

                After hours of pushing

                Thorns into my bones,

                I weep in front of Him,

                The hurt won,

                The tears real,

                I cried to Him.

 

And He reached out,

                Taking my hand,

                Asking me to tell Him,

                A tale,

 

I met Him -

Reviews

[John the Baptist]

These lines seem to represent a religious journey, although not in a proselytizing way. The various symbols and the capitalized "Him" indicate that the speaker met Christ at various times in his life, one pleasant, the others not so much so. After the last one, a full fledged religious experience seems to have occurred. Presumably, it changed the speaker's life permanently.

[CLCurrie]

Thank you for the review and you nailed it on the head. The poem is about the Lord and meeting Him in the speaker's life.