Poem: “Reign Over Me”

Poem: “Reign Over Me”

By: Eric Gajewski

From the work, "Fortress of the Soul"

Psalms 79:4 Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

Please enjoy my latest poem from the work Fortress of the Soul. At the end of the blog is a listing to all my latest poems. Please enjoy and share them, Ave Maria! 

Please play the video below and listen to the song as you are reading the Poem. Take time afterwards to reflect.

“Reign Over Me”

Beneath the darkened skies, I pray

I closed my eyes only to reveal within this world of lies

No dream, indeed, for it is just You and I

Whilst my whole world didst collapse by thy holy design

So that now I could only see Thee

Some would say I was an evil beast

Still others too busy to care being enrapt in their own greed

But my heart wandered thru every country

Painfully longing…

Searching deep….

A journey which loosened me from this false city of “security”

Tripping often, my heart was cut

But due to pride wouldst never bleed

Yea, it was He who eventually came

And like the rain falling gently

Made, with His tears, my new way

For what I wanted

He knew I never didst truly need

And with each Word You spoke

An eagle grew stronger in wings of Faith and Hope

And with Your Heart’s Light Yoke

Playing softly uponst my heart’s keys

All heaven’s choir broke out in melody...

For as Thy Eyes would open

My whole soul too would set in flames of Charity

O’ Thy Sacred Heart so rich in Poverty

So humble and meek…

You wouldst dare to draw close to this sinner

And by the noonday Wind Ye would often intimately speak

Yea, I confess, I found Thee on Love’s Mountain

Calling me onward to Her highest peek

It is here I cast down my trodden heart

Take me not from thy sight, O’ Blessed Prince!

As I would fall at thy Feet of Mercy

Walking on these streets, no more to conspire

It is where I let this old man die, a heart now enraged by Thy Fire

And with each few steps I found new breath

Once blinded by the white of this world’s false light

I, too, like Saul, was struck

Off of my high horse and fell to my knees...

I, too, wandered “in circles” with the Sadducees and Pharisees

I, too, came to this Road onto Damascus

Wherein, I, too, had my inner eyes closed unto Thee

Broken, bruised, battered and torn

Do you all still not see?

That mystically upon the Cross

You were still as an Infant in thy Mothers Arms

You were our Great Eagle with Arms wide open

Fastened as One upon Her, thee Great Tree

O’ how blind!

Harken to heareth the eagle speak

How can we dare say

We can make it thru each day without Mary?

How do we still choose the self over Christ continually?

Whence all that we need to be happy

Is right in front of us…

Thus, we must all go within to examine

And ask in all of our actions

To Whom, do we alone, seek to please?

Yea, in any season of the soul, it is still He who leads

For I have tripped in the fall

I have failed Him miserably

I have landed in my own tears which I’ve wept

I have back-stabbed Him egregiously

But now, I have turned over in spring,

Away from this self as a new leaf

I have even seen the rain fall in winter

And thus I now decree before all

That in this summer of my soul I arise daily to meet

That You would watch over my heart

For I have nothing no longer left to lose

And with thy Rays, O’ Son

Strike me down forevermore and let me be as One!

Come down without a sound and please Reign over me…..

 

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