- Jena
Ode to a beautiful summer evening..
Updated: Feb 13, 2020
So bright before the sunset
as the day brings forth its end
Its sweetness is illumined
The trees, the leaves, they bend
Breeze wafts through the parlor
The coolness kisses my cheek
I just stop this fleeting moment
As if through clouds, I peek
There aren’t just empty chairs
Or shoes just in a pile
Open Bibles, scribbling notes
rippling pages, knowing smiles
Would I trade for streets of gold
the comforts of this life?
My war torn heart, my empty hand
for all life’s comforts, void of strife?
Not for a million dollars
would I trade this scene
Take my home, the breeze, the sun–
all life’s pleasures would I deem
an unworthy wage, a paltry sum
for heaven’s portal, an eternal view
of saints, once sinners, lost in time
giving Him, his praise, his due