Slumber Nights



The sky was twinkling.
The stars like somber, ever reaching.
Yet sound and light to my ears and eyes.
My bright, bright, light
Don't ever go out,
Don't ever die of fright.
Let the light,
Let it shine forth.
Let the somber nights not awaken me.
Let not my heart wander no more in fright.
Let my ears and eyes pierce the dimness of the night:
My life, my sorrows,
Let me see the light,
Not shake at night.
Oh God, why are you so far
And yet so near.
Are my senses for fear
Or for You that peers in the set of night?
Oh God, hold me near
And not so far from your sight.
When I awake, don't forsake my life for strife.
Your so near, yet so far,
Must I crawl to find an unreachable gap between us?
Oh, let it be Jesus,
Let Him be the gap between us,
Not hell, don't let us fall under Satan's spell.

The dark of night,
The light of light,
Shiver me timbers,
And shake off fright,
Satan flees, and doesn't come at the stalking night.
I hold Jesus between me and God,
Now my armor is shod!

Twinkling eyes, sulking spies
Flee from the Lord's eyes
As I slumber at night.

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I AM A MAN AS I SHOULD BE: POEM BOOK 1

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Submitted by RonaldBunch on July 04, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AABCXCCXXCCXCCDEECECXDFFFX CCXCCGG BBC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,025
Words 213
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 26, 7, 3

Ronald-Bunch

ronaldbunch.com He did volunteer work, goes to church, reads, and likes long walks. He's a self published writer and poet. He's getting his GED and will graduate at Grand Rapids (USA) community college. Activity: Ronald Lee Bunch published his poetry book called I Am A Man As I should be on create space September 1st, 2014 (Paper Back) and August 31, 2014 (Kindle Edition) Audio book is now available at amazon. Interests: Writing, reading, walking. Favorite book types: Fantasy and writer/author biographies. Some of the books he read: Mainspring (Clockwork Earth #1), The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia), The Holiness of God, The Outsiders, Clash of the Titans, Gulliver's Travels, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter #2), The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic, Crossfire, Outland, Krull, The Red King (Star Trek: Titan, #2), Icerigger #1, Spellsinger, Flinx's Folly (Pip & Flinx #9), Battle Surgeons (Star Wars: Clone Wars, #4), The Silmarillion, The Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit, David Copperfield. more…

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