Poetry by Gregory Ross

For many years I wandered through
This world without true light
Bound and blind in foolish pride
No hope or peace in sight
With pain and rage I ran so hard
Not knowing that true love
Pursued me each and every day
From someone up above
I kept on searching in the dark
To fill my empty life
Yet no amount of earthly things
Could take away my strife
I tried to smoke and drink away
The hurting thoughts I had
But the drugs and drunkenness
Just numbed me from the bad
It wasn’t long before I sought
To get another high
That only lasted a short while
Yet more and more I’d try
It is a miracle for sure
That I lived through it all
To my lowest point in life
Is where I’d have to fall
My hardened heart within was broke
Which I had built for years
Locked in a jail upon my knees
I cried great drops of tears
Remembering what Mama sais
That Jesus did love me
So very much that on a cross
He died to set me free
In ignorance and unbelief
I chose to go my way
Yet now I saw this life is real
And not some game you play
I thought about how I had lived
My life was one big lie
Yet I believed that there was hope
If to the lord I’d cry
“I’m sorry Lord for everything
And how I lived so long
Without a care of your great love
Oh how I was so wrong
Please forgive all do my sins
And make this man brand new
I believe in you Dear Lord
And that your word is true”
Jesus heard this prayer to him
When I sought his face
Forever now my story’s theme

He saved me by his grace


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