"Beautiful Life"

A flame with shadows: dancing

Here glimmering on the wall

Its passion seems from quick a glance un-brilliant and small
“Why so?” Its question raised
Now imprisoned in a cage
For such a flame, it seems a shame to limit it at all
      A canopy so small

Too fast, the oxygen
Exhausted by this light
Was swallowed up from with-in that small canopy that night
Yet still the flame: sustained
Though it was not in sight
The canopy was famed as suddenly it took to flight
      Adrift the wind at night
      Glowing by the little light

By just the light of just one flame
By just the bow after the rain
The Earth can see True Hope again
      And claim its Light

A Man with weakness: wrestling
So visible to all
His passion viewed by ignorance un-brilliant and small
“Why so?” His question raised
Judgment traps Him in a cage
But when God’s Man is in God’s plan He worries not at all
     No fear – not great or small

Yet still the man: sustained
And little was his might
The judgments made of him defamed as God He glorified
     Unto the heart so cold
     Amidst the day of strife
     Truth articulated bold
     Death articulated Life

By just the life of just one Man
By just the dew upon the land
We all may claim “I’m in His hands”
      Beautiful life