Author • Gloria Koya

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It was a scary night...                                      

Sweats trickled on my back             

The street was cold as ice                             

The sky, so thick and dark                                                                                     

Fear hit me like a rock                                

As the wind blew fiercely                             

Leaves flew across the empty street           

Like sparrows in a wide field       

                                

Nothing could be seen                                   

In the dim path of the black night               

Even the stars hid behind the sky               

Like a child on his mother’s back

I realized it wasn’t a nightmare                 

When the wind gave me a harsh slap         

I bowed my head in tears                               

Cos’ it was too much for me to bear

                                

But there, on the icy black road                     

The Prince of love appeared             

He looked into my teary eyes                    

With love that healed like fresh balm

He stretched forth his nail-pierced hands   

And gave me the warmest hug ever            

I felt a gentle squeeze in my heart  

And all my worries began to melt... 

Traveling down the channel of my soul,        

I felt the burn of light,                                          

The burn of love                                                    

And the sparkling burn of hope

            

My little mind wondered  

If such immensity of love was real  

I could barely comprehend                          

How He could even embrace me so.  

                                                                

How Precious One?                                  

Me - a once lonely one !

In the Arms of Love

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