Tribulation - A poem by David Reiner

Am I drowning like a dark romance?
Have I slipped beneath the waves with billowy layers of petticoats?
My heart is aching and pounding.
A tight pressure within my chest.
Is my heart muscle struggling and dying?
Is the oxygen deprived from my soul?
So short of breath and cold.

Have I been electrocuted?
The current surging through me.
The arrhythmia, stopping my heart dead.
Unconsciousness to the world.
No feeling left in my soul.
The wave of energy passing through.
Tearing my soul from within.

I have been robbed of my energy.
Happiness and enthusiasm evading me.
Frustration, sadness and grief consuming me.
Have I become hopeless to this world?
The worry and anxiety tunneling through my heart.
What is happening to the world around me?
The wars are intensifying castrating the souls.

Where is my lost love?
The one I live for and care for daily.
The one who consumed my heart with happiness and love.
The children who engulfed me with joy.
My soul has been ripped from me.
I gladly give myself for their happiness now.
I pass through to an unknown place.

Abandoned in a place called nowhere.
My heart aches eternally.
Where is this place where no love exists?
No feeling for each other.
Has the world gone mad?
The tribulation has approached us.
I am here alone now.

I hear a voice within the darkness.
Telling me to journey back, I don’t belong.
I hear the cries from thousands of souls as the towers came down.
I feel the pain of the world upon me.
I look to the heavens and a faint light appears.
A voice so thunderous saying “I Am”
I feel my body energize with thousands of volts.

The cries of the souls pass through me wave after wave.
Split between the now and then.
I feel the love of my family pulling me to a new place.
The love of my children and my one true love, my wife.
The love of my Father in Heaven guiding me.
Where does this journey go?
I follow the footsteps, the ones He left for me.

Love

What is love? Do you know what love is? How does love feel? You know it is love when it hurts deep in your soul when those you love are snatched away from you.When your heart aches and your tears flow, you can't think straight. God taught us what love is when he sent his only son to die on the cross for us.

In 1 John 4:7-8 " Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God: and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
He the loveth not, Knoweth not God; for God is love"

Love your wife and wives, love your husbands. Love your children - for it is the children that will inherit the Kingdom of God. Learn to follow in the footsteps of the Lord, for he will guide you through life. He will help you guide your family through life. He will demonstrate true love to you. See, you know it is love, not because of all the good times alone, but because of the pain you feel when those times are absent.

Cherish the love you have for your family and never let it go. God never stops loving us. Never give up on love and it will not give up on you. Never stop loving all those around you.

Love your enemy as well as you love your friend. For he that knoweth love, shll know God. He that knoweth God shall love forever.

Let not man tear asunder what God has joined. God joined you to your family, let no one tear it apart. For he who teareth apart what God has joined, so tearth themselves from God.

Remember - God is love. Without God there would be no love. So love God first, love you wife, childrena nd family and love they neighbor.