Today I would like to take a brief detour from the usual stories to share with you all a poetic work I wrote a couple years ago for a Fifth Sunday Fellowship event. Don't worry, it is a narrative poem and tells the story of human redemption from the despair of a sin-filled life. I wrote it in a special stanza series with alphabetical verses and partial latin choruses. Read it as a song, if you like.

Soulfire

Long ago we lived in shadow, seeking not the day

Living life as saw fit to, come whatever may

Selfish in our hidden ways, in darkness spurning light

Shying far away from hope and hiding in the night

Soulfire atrum umbra, all is dark with sin

Soulfire igneus crimen, fiery guilt within

Lordless beings of the darkness, was all that we were

Loveless creatures of the fallen, in need of a cure

Running far and wide as if we sought a remedy

Running through the night as from ourselves we tried to flee

Soulfire vacuus Deus, we did not know God

Soulfire haud pietas, love was a facade

Light then shown down round about us, suddenly we saw

Life was given God’s own standard in His holy law

Quite a realization that was, the standard to see

Quickly leading to depression within you and me

Soulfire Deus verum, we learned of God’s truth

Soulfire eram tardus, too late for our youth

Languid cries arose within us, anguish in the dark

Living torment at the knowledge, that we missed the mark

Pounding tumult rose up from us, as we sought to find

Prayer for reassurance that our chains would not long bind

Soulfire cruciatus, we lived in torment

Soulfire intorqueo, we were by sin bent

Love then manifested itself in the strangest way

Little baby born in Bethlehem upon the hay

Omnipotent Son of God in human form was he

Offering his life to live and die to make us free

Soulfire victus spero, living hope was won

Soulfire sanctus genus, in God’s holy son

Lasting peace was set before us, now within our reach

Lessons of life given for us, that Jesus did teach

Nevermore should we fear the law in order to live

Now we understand that salvation was God’s to give

Soulfire pax donatus, we were given peace

Soulfire salus Deus, salvation’s release