Poem 1: Lift up your eyes

You face trials
Many kinds
You get battered
Every side
Life deals you
Many blows
Lift up your eyes

The stress becomes
Very deep
Depression looms
Very near
The going becomes
Very tough
Lift up your eyes

The weight of
Your adversity
Very very Big
Denying you sight of
What you should see
Very present
Lift up your eyes

For close to you
Very close
Is the source
Of Your Help
Ever present
Look, your Help
Lift up your eyes

Our Help is
The Lord
Very Big God
Neither leaving
Nor forsaking
Ever near
Ever present in need

Into your situation
Factor God
Almighty, Very Big
He – He is your Help
Never sleeps, never slumbers
Lift up your eyes
Behold and access
Your Help!

© Nana Damoah
7 April 06 (written in Hallward Library, University of Nottingham, UK)