The Great Divide

this poem is dedicated to a very dear loved one who has just crossed over to eternity.

The Great Divide

Standing across a great divide
I reach for you, but cannot find
How do I touch your hand
Just once again?

I shout your name
Into the uncaring wind
It blows back a cold draft
That touches my very soul

Lord, I want to believe,
A better place do we go
When this world we depart
But faith is tested in the darkest hour
Between dusk and dawn

Only You can hold me together
When all around me crumble and fall
In the raging storm
In the fiery struggle
I stumble

You hear me when I call
You find me when I’m lost
Alone in the fields
Yet surrounded by You

Across the great divide stand I
I cross over
On Your Cross
To the other side