Symbolic Innisfree
I will arise and go now, to meet the Trinity -
And a small temple build there, for the Spirit’s fire made.
In Him, my soul exalts, His love pours from within me.
My life at His feet have I laid.
And I shall sense His peace there, peace comes to us below.
We sit still in His quiet, and wait for those dark days.
Here, all else is forgotten, and as the night comes slow,
My quiet soul leaves His haven of praise.
I will arise and go now, for during the nights and days,
I remember Your Haven and the songs of angels’ encore.
When I strive with evil powers, when in troubled ways,
I remember and worry no more.
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This, if I remember correctly, was written around 8-10 years ago, while I was attending Trinity Baptist Church in Burlington. It was in response to the famous poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by Yeats. Many people over the ages have gone to various places to find meaning to life. How thankful I am to have found that solution already in the Biblical God!
