Today the original topic of the Blogging Every day challenge
is poetry. And since I have written some poetry of my own in the past, I
thought that I would just share a poem that I recently wrote.
But I read it again today after not reading it for a few
months and it does not seem suitable for my blog.
Other poems that I remember that I wrote, are mostly in
Dutch, so I decided to just share one of my favourite poems today.
I read it in the book of Purity and Passion from Elisabeth
Ellliot, a book about the true story of two people who love eachother but are
asked by God to wait till they are allowed by Him to finally be together.
It is a really beautiful, touching story about putting God
first in your life and mostly wanting Gods will for your life, no matter the
cost.
Jim Elliot mentions the poem in one of his letters that he
wrote to Elizabeth and which Elisabeth later quoted in her book.
And beneath his letter in her book, Elisabeth wrote down the
poem.
It really touched my heart and it still means a lot to me
today.
I have tried to find it back for some time but I think that
I always looked it up in Dutch and I could not find it and today I searched in
English and finally found it ! I found a sample from the book on Amazon with
the poem and the name of the writer.
I then searched again on internet and found out that the
name of the poem is:
Night song at Amalfi and it is written by Sara Teasdale.
I asked the heaven of stars,
what I should give my love
He answered me with silence
Silence above
I asked the darkened sea
Down where the fishes go--
It answered me with silence,
Silence below--
Oh I could give him weeping
Or I could give him a song
But how can I give silence
My whole life long ?
Just imagine loving someone and not being able to talk to
them, maybe because they don't want to talk to you or some other reason. And
you would have to give them silence for the rest of your life ?
That's a very long time !
Jim and Elisabeth end up together and get married but
unfortunately their time together is short because he dies in the mission
field.
What do you think about the poem ? Do you have a favourite
poem ?
I would love to hear from you.
Love,
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