It is long since I have been here <br />Yes you may ask, where is here? <br />I say you may ask, why here? <br />So listen to what I’ve got to say about this here <br /> <br />Here where the generosity of life gives without strife <br />Where love, not in arrogance <br />Gives freely and in abundance <br />Where the spirit of light shines in sheer delight <br />Here where there is no pain and sorrow <br />Where there is no thinking of tomorrow <br />Here where I am free and in joy I can feel life’s cares shed away <br />Where in bliss I can while my days away. <br />Here where the soul of nature <br />In blind trust mature <br />Where all creation in its magnificence <br />Acknowledges the good Lord in all essence <br />Where seasons like the ebb of the tide <br />Break away from the shores of time <br /> <br />I have been long gone, I have long traveled with sorrow <br />Yes, I have long bedded with hatred <br />And now I am weary and done and I want to be here <br />Where in song and praise I can hear <br />The deification of a God who cares <br />Here where like a caress, feels the touch of a fiend <br />And so welcome is the embrace of a friend <br />Yeah, I have been long gone <br />And I have come back to stay <br />Here! Here! Here!<br /><br />Mpho Petrus Manwedi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/here-19/
