The Sole Beneath Your Path
They sit in the corner
Dusty and barren
Your path now exhausted
Fitting only our prayers to heaven
They traveled the earth
Bringing fragments home
Soles now worn off
Chilling my bones
Fading splatters of blood
Releasing your soul
Vanish to the new life
Clinging to memories of ole
When I glare at them
My heart swells afire
The fearless path my dearest took
I can only admire
Copyright @ Christine-Smith Johnson
Inspired by Landon
Posted on January 27, 2012, in Dealing With Death, Poetry and Short Stories, Relationship Issues, Uncategorized, Veteran Issues, Victim Abuse and tagged boots, Christ, dad, death, family, father, God, grief, heart, heaven, husband, Jeff, Jesus, Life, love, path, poem, Poetry and Short Stories, relationships, sole, soul, Widow. Bookmark the permalink. 15 Comments.
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What a beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing. I am so sorry for your loss.
beautiful poem. it stirs up so many emotions in the heart.
WAW Christine, my dear I’m speechless…
Dear Christine,
I signed up to follow your blog but the confirmation has not come through…I’ll see what the glitch is. Meanwhile, I will pop in…
Your reply to my comment…Wow!
To be able to dream of Jesus…so blessed…
Christine, I say this with absolute and unshakable belief – you will meet your loved ones again, all of us will.
Peace and good wishes,
Eric
Hi Eric, I am not sure about the confirmation. I will check my email. I usually do not approve follow’s, as they are automatic.
Your comment has me smiling. Actually at a loss of words, too busy smiling. xoxoxo
will you walk me threw the award thing. love the poem btw 🙂
Hi Christina! You can start a new post on your site and copy and paste the rules and picture of the award from my site to yours, or anyone’s site that has them. You can also put the award on the side or bottom of your site. Go to your widgets under your dashboard and slide the “image” widget over to where you want the award picture and copy and paste the url of the award picture to the image box. I hope this helps, if not let me know, I will walk you through step by step. Good luck!
Thank you for reading the poem and commenting. 🙂
Your poem reminds me of these words, Christine, if I may:
Deep loss…beautiful memories…temporal parting…future hope…
Peace upon you, Eric
Eric, Of course you always may! 🙂
This is such a perfect description from you, and a beautiful order of events.
I was honestly hoping for your feedback. Thank you for your interpretation.
I love…temporal parting…future hope…
Wouldn’t it be nice to truthfully know if we all meet up again someday?
My son attends church but does not discuss his fears or worries often. Out of the blue, he asked me last year how did I really know he was saved. Everything I explained, he still asked, …but how do you know? I referred him to passages of the Bible and that night, he dreamed Jesus came down and took everybody in the world home. He also showed him the ones who didn’t go to heaven. He said the first person he saw in Heaven was his Daddy. His description of Heaven matched the Bible description. We talked for an hour or more. I was in amazement of the descriptions he gave me, and he was obviously satisfied with the answers he received. He hasn’t asked again. 🙂 I was excited for him to dream of Jesus, which I never have, and I was clinging to the hope of seeing Jeff and other loved ones again, as this has been a daily question in my heart. This is how I perceive your future hope. Very beautiful Eric. Thank you!
Beautiful.
Awe Thank you Todd! I hope you enjoyed it.
And maybe Jeff too is reading this blog from heaven 🙂
I sure hope so. I have to believe that he is still forever a part of our lives, watching over us.
That is the sweetest comment ever. Thank you! xoxoxo
NIce one christine…touching one as always.
“The fearless path my dearest took
I can only admire” Loved this line…keep blogging 🙂
Hi Abhijit, thank you so much for the approval!
He truly was fearless. That’s the irony of his whole death, which is another story for another time.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend. 🙂