Here is My Everything

its a GODPOEM - if you don't like poems about faith - don't read it.

Here is my broken heart

Here is my shattered life

Here are all my faults and failures

As a woman a mother and wife

All the promises I've broken

All the hateful things I've said

All the life I left unspoken 

Wasting my breath upon the dead

 

Here is my sweat and sacrifice

Here is my blood and pain

My hollow effort to pay some price

Worry wasted for no gain

All the lies I cling to

All the truth I threw away

All the darker thoughts I bring you

Waste my steps and run astray

 

Here’s the sum of my existence

Here’s the hardest part to learn

This wretched pride and persistence

Stokes a bonfire set to burn

All I am at the end of me

All damage done that I could do

All that’s left is the love that sets me free

Everything comes from you

TL Boehm 10/06/2013 

Author's Note

. “But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as
generously as this? Everything comes from you,
1 Chronicles 29:14
I don't often write a God poem - but when I do - I am often inspired by a specific bit from the Bible. Shared by a person wiser than me.

Reviews

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Here's the sum of my existence
Here's the hardest part to learn
This wretched pride and persistence -- great lines...these really grabbed me.

A heartbreaking write, but there is that shred of hope that I have come to expect from your work--those last two lines that speak of "love setting you free" made me smile. Strong, emotional and honest work.

[TL Boehm]

Thank you so much. Hope is a powerful thing. Sometimes its the only thing

[Rita L. Sev]

Wow. This goes so deeply to the soul, Tammy. That second stanza had me captivated - they are the words of a person of faith, but could be the words of Jesus himself - in his moments of humanity, his words at Gethsemane - wondering if it would all be worth it...

Faith is a fire that needs to be stoked - you do "God poems" beautifully!

[TL Boehm]

Thank you Rita. There was a brief point in my life that I aspired to be a Christian writer - exclusively - but I realized that for me writing is a way to get the muck up and out - so - I just write - and sometimes I write about faith.

[Rita L. Sev]

Just like the muck, faith is part of who we are. I do the same - write whatever the Muse demands, and sometimes it's a matter of faith.

[Strider Marcus Jones]

This excellent poem proves that we are all stronger after honest, self examination. 100/100

[TL Boehm]

thank you. honest is all I have at the moment. I don't have enough brain power to keep up with lies - at least not today. Monday may be different. My default girl is angsty.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i like this, Tammy...

despite the speaker's faults and transgressions in life...this poem shows that hope of redemption..

the good outweighing the bad..

nicely written.

jacob

[TL Boehm]

Thank you Jacob. I cringe a little putting up God poems because I am a lousy representation of what it means to be "Christian" but this one is reflective of how I feel in my heart about a lot of things. I am relieved that you liked it.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Tammy, this definitely was from your heart...and yes, i too am a bit shy of religious poems...but yours is different..it is your inner soul..and it is not preachy at all..

refreshing, actually...and gives us much pause for introspection.

jacob

[TL Boehm]

thank you so much.