Poetry

Through Ocean, To Heaven (further up, further in!)

February 4, 2009

We’re going home, my love;
we’re going to a place we’ve never been.
We’re pouring it out all at once
and flying across the Sea,
flying to take a new world by storm
and see what we’ve never seen.

There are stars and valleys held in massive array
with the colors of the sunrise
on every growing tree;
there are mysteries hid deep down,
hidden in crystal caves
where you and I and a million more
will stand and discover what we once were;
there are cities, castles, and mountainous heights
in places where the glory awaits
when all the chosen are brought to life
and are carried in to all that’s bright.

I’ll sing with you, out beneath those skies
on the peaks of the world we’ve always dreamed
in that crisp, brilliant, blinding air
where angels have waited for men to tread.
We’ll stand and sing a thousand things
till the summer comes to catch our breath
in its winds that sweep the flowered cross
up to joy borne out on eternal hope.

Oh, we’re going home, my love;
we’re going to a place we’ve never been.
We’re pouring it out all at once
and flying across the Sea,
flying to take a new world by storm
and see what we’ve never seen.

There are massive forests,
where wonders will slowly grow and move
beneath the redwoods formed by word of God.
There are waterfalls
of emeralds and star
that will bathe men in their ocean pour,
there are clouds, up where the air is thin
where we will dance until we can barely breathe.
There are fires in colors we’ve never seen
and things we never knew could exist.

I’ll love you, like I never have
before the rainbowed throne of the King,
as angels roar to shake the worlds
and we speak what no men can speak.
We’ll bow low and tremble with terrible fear
as our minds are torn apart
only to find they’ve only grow larger
and that fear is just the start
of a glory that lasts far beyond a moment
and drifts out into stars.

We’re going home, my love;
we’re going to a place we’ve never been.
We’re pouring it out all at once
and flying across the Sea,
flying to take a new world by storm
and see what we’ve never seen.

And I’ll laugh there, as I never have before,
caught up in our Savior’s arms.
I’ll give myself away for the first and fullest time
to really live, and really love
beneath those massive, wild, and ancient skies
when we’re finally taken Home.

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