Hope Whispers

Lament & Hope · Apr 10, 2023 · 2m

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Words and voice: Jon Swales

Beats- Chris Sayburn

Hope whispers my name,

And speaks to my soul.

‘Rest a while,

I have a healing balm and will tend your wounds.’

I counter,

‘But have you seen the pain,

The poison runs deep,

The beasts run wild.’

And hope speaks,

And addresses my wounded heart,

‘Indeed,

I know.

The night is darkest just before the dawn.

On cursed tree,

Through whip and nail,

The evil of empire,

& the sickness of sin

sinned against me.

Alone in pain.

I breathed my last ‘

Downcast I spoke

‘The beast has won .

As hope lies silent in the grave.

In the book of life…