Poem: Cement Foundations

I wrote this poem kind of as a response to a problem I face as a Christian, one I think is common for all Christians. We have these thoughts that diffuse in our minds, that distract us from what we should be thinking about. We get caught up in our own problems, our own troubles and forget the cement foundations we can rely upon.

We can rely upon God.

And he is the way, the truth and the life. His words are the soil that allow us to flourish. We get distracted by all we can see, touch, experience and easily forget that God is the one who sustains.

He is the one we trust to carry our burden of sin - let him be the one whom we can trust to carry our burden of life.

"Relentless

Obsession, patterned with thoughts

Upon things not to be relied upon,

Devoid of all truth (that which is cemented

In the foundations you once desired).

Not desired,

But needed, for to carry a burden

With little surity is to reconsider

Those foundations you once were grounded on

Littlest hope in the things that fail

And yet,

You stray swiftly into the next tulip field

Hoping to find a tall one - a decent flower

Forgetting what made that flower beautiful

Was not its colour but the soil that bore it

And you,

Realise, the grounding of all that's beautiful

Is shamefully forgotten, and whilst you

Forsake the cement foundations, they are

Always there, taking you right back

Never to forsake you, even when

The flowers fade."

~Aynsley Vivian (2020)