All My Feelings Rose Today

-All My Feelings Rose Today-
by
Keaton Foster



All my feelings rose today
Far beyond this place
Far beyond my shape
Out into the clear blue
Out beyond all that I
Am sure is the truth
Into a realm of absolutes
Past my mind, and its physical ties
To a higher plane, a realm of infancy
Where all that I was sure I knew
Was stripped away and replaced
With something I knew nothing of
A kingdom of questions to be answered
In such a place, such a nubile state
I was shown what God intended
The purpose of his interdiction
Before me, like pages in a book
Were all the days of my life
Those lived and those to come
I read each line, studied each detail
Embraced every nuance
I was shown it all except the last page
I was brought to the end of it all
But not allowed to see any more
Closed up tight, and placed up high
I would never know what was to be
I would only come to know what could be
God reached out and grabbed my soul
With the force of all his might
He took hold, making a fist
In that second I was at his mercy
He could have further crushed me
But instead he threw me back
Like an angry child, throwing a rock
Back down to earth
Back down to my skin and bones
The impact was great, the significance
Of such an expression was enough
My body and I again became one
I returned from death, I was alive
All of my feelings rose today
All that I was sure I could never do
Became easier than I had ever knew
Faith, the once impossible mountain
No longer stands as an obstacle
But has become a monument to what is possible
Hand over fist, I climbed to the peak
I stood above the past
Never again will I judge the sky
Never again will I cry
My soul, my role, my purpose
All made right, through God and his might
Out into the blue, I know that he
Has retuned me for a reason
To finish the last page of a book
No longer at its end
But rather halfway written…




All My Feelings Rose Today
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2012.