Beyond the Fence
Life,
It feels so foreign to my eyes,
This strange world under heavy skies.
Is this the life we’re meant to see?
Am I alive, or used to be?
Wasting away in cold blue light,
Why does it never feel quite right?
With nothing left to lose or gain,
It borders close to the insane.
It’s such a shame.
I only see what’s washed away,
As moments fade from day to day.
A ticking clock inside my chest,
When did it start and leave no rest?
Am I running out of time? Yes.
To do just what? To toil and bow?
A gear inside a machine built for now?
To work the fields for green was life,
To work the plant for cash brings strife.
Now give your children to the state,
They claim to know and guide their fate—
The truth is clear as years go by:
They’d rather raise them, than you and I.
Keep busy, child, or lose it all,
To pay for things that fade and fall.
The dollar calls its followers in,
A carrot on a stick of tin.
You own no carrot, hold no stick,
Just bound by string to pull the trick.
Has every promise been a lie?
Will I survive to sixty-five?
No tomorrow’s guaranteed,
Is there time to borrow or concede?
Shed the world that man has made,
Find true life where colors fade.
God prepared a gentler land,
To walk together, hand in hand.
To leave this world may look so poor,
Like foolish men behind the door.
But in creation, wealth resides—
Where time and love and peace abide.
Truth rests within the viewer’s view,
But tell me, whose eye looks through you?
This is the place you’re crafted for:
Just breathe the trees, the sea, the shore.
With eyes to see and ears to hear,
How do I make the pathway clear?
The Spirit called, the grace was shown
Creation is my rightful home.
Yet here stands a boundary fence,
Built by my hands without defense
A life I made before the call.
Yet in the wind I hear it all.
I see your light begin to rise
In fiery red across the skies.
I find my peace within your grace,
You walked beside me in this place.
I simply had not cleared my sight
To see your love in morning light.
So like the birds, I will not sow,
On eagle wings I’ll rise and go.
For now, my place is grounded here,
To hold these precious blessings dear.
I want to live, no longer bound,
Leaving man’s world for holy ground...
In love.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
Amen.