These Are My JOTtings...

The Search for Narnia and Middle Earth

What do the lands of Narnia
and Middle Earth reveal
About the hopes and quest in us
we really firmly feel?

We long for victory to last
with hopes no more at test,
But long before the day be past
the peace again is wrest.

When will The King return to take
His rightful Throne we ask
To change the wrong to right and make
the Peace His lasting task?

Will we yet stroke great Aslan's mane?
Will Gondor have its king?
Will Good yet have its lasting reign?
Will voices newly sing?

As long as people chase the ring
of brass that clouds the mind,
we'll live on Earth where Wrong doth bring
great curses so unkind.

But when we see great Jadis slain,
Stone Table broke in two,
The ring is gone and ne'er again
can Eye look down on you,

Then Hope can live in human heart
that sees Aslan today.
Great Gondor's King begins to start
to reign as we obey.

For Gondor may be kingdom seen,
when breath has breathed its last,
There Aslan's Home is fully green,
when Wrong to Hell is cast.

But now the song in minor key
doth long for major's end
That from the home of Picardy
the tones will fully mend.

So, Narnia and Picardy
and Middle Earth apace
Are visions that we long to see
amid God's Wondrous Grace.

by Jay O'Toole
on April 10th, 2017