Distance and Space

-Distance and Space-
by Keaton Foster



Upon the hill
Wilderness still
Motionless the sky
Wild are her eyes
She sees what I don’t
What I refuse
Heaven above
God of the sun
Champion of the sky
A kingdom to come
Where many will go
Those disposed
Vacant of life
As so defined
Absent of all strife
What a surprise it shall be
They won’t know their time
Nor that it has transpired
Every soul to be removed
Ripped from our bones
Set aloft
Freedom from every idea
And rationale fear
She sees all of it as true
She has convinced herself
And such conviction
Stands no chance of change
Distance and space
For her and those like her
Earth is the beginning
Life is our inception
Death leads to what’s next
Transcendence beyond
The conflictions we have lived
Unlike her and those in tow
I fight to see anything true
Anything that I can believe
All I see is a caustic blackness
Mired by but a few dots of light
Pin pricks in a shroud dark
Covering up what’s behind
Easily to me she confesses
Not that I’m asking
Or pressuring her in any way
God is right there
So high above
My one savior
The true redeemer
My master of this life
And the would be confessor
Of my ultimate death
He won’t abandoned me here
Never have I been lost
The lamb and the flock
Are connected beyond
Distance and space
Continually I watch along
A novice at any idea of faith
I cannot believe as she does
And I’m quite sure I never will
What she sees I am blind to
Such persuasions are strong
Her faith is infallible
The blackness I call my own
Is the paradise she dreams
Upon the hill
Wilderness still
Motionless the sky
Wild are her eyes
She sees what I don’t
What I refuse
For her
What’s so close
Is for a man like me
Impossibly far away…


Distance and Space
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.