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Without You (My Life)

A poem on life without God

By Anna Hayward

"Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world"

Galatians 4:3

I have been the other side of the fence. I have known life without God, although I fancied myself religious. This is a poem of how life was and how it might have been, had not God rescued me (please see my testimony), first written in 1988:-

Without You (My Life)

Without You: My life
A space for Infinity;
Un-filled existence,
Crammed with words and people.
Words like mist, people like smoke;
The substance-less deserters.

Without You: My life
Alone in a crowd;
Desolation like wolves,
Hungrily tearing my soul.
Spider's silk ragged, tattered and torn;
My meaningless happiness.

Without You: My life
A succession of days;
Like a tap dripping brine,
Deceptively taunting my thirst.
Sea-water salty, each sip bringing death;
Unable to satisfy.

Without You: My life
Corrupted flesh;
A parody of beauty,
A Death's head in a bonnet.
Loveliness squandered, infanticide-inside;
Requiring resurrection by Crucifixion.


Written by Anna Hayward (c) 1992.