Note from Helen: I would like to introduce a good friend of mine, AUDREY YEAGER. Audrey is a freelance writer and columnist at The Columnists, living in the Pacific Northwest. Her articles, columns and poetry have appeared in the Tacoma News Tribune, Country Almanac Magazine, Christian Singles Magazine, Goleta Gazette, Thurston/Mason Senior News, Woman's Touch Magazine and the Nisqually Valley Newspaper. Audrey has taught creative writing at a private school. She's the mother of six and has 17 grandchildren.
If He had stayed Stayed enclosed in the cool, dark rock If He had stayed If He had stayed Oh, Beloved! Yet, here we are HE IS RISEN!
Where tender, caring hands had put Him
Wrapped around with linen
And aromatic preparations
To sleep on,
Decayed and forgotten,
While eternity rolled away
Imprisoned
Behind the Roman seal
Soon to be but another set of bones
Added to the numberless skeletons bred of Earth
Down where tradition laid His head
Done with sight, and touch,
And voice
If He had stayed...
Excruciating contemplation!
Hopelessness behind.
Doom ahead
And it can't be said with enough power,
Not by human voices, anyway
No! Imagine it, ringingly proclaimed
By Heaven's angelic hosts... (He didn't stay)
Read Audrey's - "Just A Passing Face…" in her column at the The Columnists