You're precious to me

Sometimes life gets you down.... but I have a Savior who loves me enough to go down where I go and pull me out.

There comes a point when caring is hard.

When it's like your hands have thousand pound weights attached,

As you sink to the bottom of the ocean,

And your lungs are being crushed under its pressure

And all you can do

Is let the salt water burn

Your throat

as it fills your mouth,

Your lungs,         

Your body.

                You rock

Back

                And Forth

As

                The tide

Goes in

And

Back

Out.

Your nerves go numb

But you can still feel the cold fire burning from within, eating your oxygen.

The very thing that gives you life,

Is being consumed

To give life

To another.

Just as the darkness begins to overtake

And you’ve resigned to the sweet silence of death

Welcoming whatever may come,

Eternal glory or eternal anguish,

Someone comes and cuts the weights from your wrists,

                And pulls you to the surface.

The light burns your eyes,

                Air from another fills your chest

As you cough the frigid liquid from your lungs,

And the unfamiliar beat of your heart

Begins

To pump

Blood to

Your limbs.

And you wonder,

                Why would anyone risk their life to save mine?

Why

Would someone plunge themselves into the dark abyss

                Of which

                                I have

Descended on my own

                Freewill

           To save

MY

LIFE?

Why

Would someone else

                Give me the air

                           From their chest?

Why would

                                Anyone

                           Rescue             me

When I don’t know which way is

Down or

Up,

Or

                Left

Or

Right,

When I’ll just

Jump,

Right back into that watery hell

If given the chance.

‘Because I know you’

                He says

‘Because I’ll take your hand,

                                And even when you

      Try,

                To jump back in,                     I will hold you.

You are precious to me.’

Author's Note

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Reviews

[NoelHC]

Impressive writing and well executed. I really enjoyed how you formatted the lay out, it seemed to add to the rhythm as I read it.

Well done!

[Trevor Bergshoeff]

Thank you! You're words are greatly appreciated :)

As for the formatting, that's the point. It's also just the way I see it and hear it in my head. I write for the eye as well as the ear. So, I'm glad to hear that it works, and that someone enjoy s it :).