When the day bird sings and the trees clap their hands
When the ocean foams along the shore
When the sun kisses your face and the breeze ripples your hair
When you can’t feel a thing because perfect love cast out fear.
And perfect love is obsolete
For you went looking for it on the street
In people, places, and muddy waters
So fear is all you know
It keeps you behind walls
They let you down, betrayed your trust
Then this new thing erupts
It breathes and you find no words to express
It comes from the wind and makes you bendable
It touches your soul and penetrates the stony heart
You decide to try it again this thing called love
But now you look in different places
Above
The carnal will not do
The lust can’t satisfy this new you
The perfect love came and hung on the tree
The lonely bird silenced
The darkness fell upon the earth
But the light broke through
And then you came running
Bringing all your fear
You placed it at the foot of that blood soaked cross
Perfect love cast out fear
You no longer search in people or self-worth
It’s a new morning and these grave clothes must depart
You open your heart and let him take the seeds of bitterness,
Dis-ease
You walk in a spiritual plane
Above trees and skies and even your dreams
And love removes the darkness
And now you glow
Like a lighted candle in a dark world
You fall down sometimes and you remember the earth
You are only dirt,
A flower fading
But now you know a love that renews you
Heals you and lets you soar above the fear
Where brokenness can heal
He is perfect love
Photo Cred: Warren Coetzer
Tekoa Manning is the author of two fiction works, Polishing Jade & Walter the Homeless Man. After a neurological illness left her disabled and eventually homeless, Tekoa began to channel her creativity into writing and devouring the Word of Yahweh. She is the wife of a retired police chief and the mother of three sons. Tekoa and her husband reside in a small town in KY. The pen name Tekoa means Trumpet, the instrument that unites people at a sudden impulse.
You can find out more about Tekoa and her writing endeavors at tekoamanning.com
