Forever free

                "They will be happy for ever,
                for ever free from sorrow and grief".
                Isaiah 51:11


My years, how quickly they fly!
Unfortunately, life is too short...
How long is left for me before I die
and angels would appear to escort?

They’ll take my soul, freed from body's weight,
freed from the gravitation forces there,
where Christ eternal, mighty and great
since then will take of my existence care.

He is the one alone who is just,
and who from sin had set my soul free,
He is the one alone, whom I trust:
He loves me so much to die for me!

My soul could have been a tragic loss,
in hell forever when my body’s dead,
but Jesus proved His love, when on the cross
He suffered, tortured, and profusely bled.

Who was with me, when I'm looking back?
Who was for me the most faithful friend?
Whose words of reassurance I could track?
Who will remain there till the end?

Through pages dark and gloomy I can see
the hand of God that guided me through storms,
the hand of God that had supported me,
the hand of God that all my life transforms.

This earthly life, alas, is very brief, 
but Jesus Christ will make me live again
Forever free from sorrow and grief,
Forever free from troubling me pain.

The Lord will make, like earthly mists,
all memory of pain to disappear,
and thus, I know, happiness exists:
where Jesus is, there is no death, no fear!

28.11.2022