Temporary Reprieve

Keys - Photo by Casila

This home was built to keep me safe

To sleep in warmth

To prepare meals to eat 

To shower my stress away

My santuary to pray

To mediate the confusion away.

My happiness was felt here

Happy, when I set a vase of flowers on my table

Happy, when I lit scented candles to perfume the air

Happy, when I sipped hot tea infront of the tv

My temporary reprieve from suffering.

Temporary it was

Like fading relationships

Temporary it was

Like the lost of my job

Temporary, it was 

My happiness and security

Temporary reprieve from suffering.

All that I have is His peace

Given to me, but not as the world gives peace

Offered and taken away

Offered and stolen 

Offered and set aflame!

Offered and conterfeit!!

Offered, then it decenagrates!!!

Only things of Heaven are permanent

His peace cannot be taken away

Amen.