The Agony of Victory

Introduction

This poem was written fairly quickly. The first line came then the rest just fell into place. After the fourth stanza was done, the title came to me. I started thinking about a show that I used to watch called Wide World of Sports. The narrator would always say, "The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat."

I got to thinking about how athletes train. All the pain and injuries they have to suffer through. The time spent in their training nearly always from the age of about 4 or 5 years old. I also took a good long look at what Jesus went through before he was nailed to the cross. I know that even though there was victory in His death, there was agony before. This is how I got the title, "The Agony of Victory."

This poem is written in couplets which means the rhyming lines are in pairs. The first line end rhyme and the second line end rhyme are rhyming words. Likewise for the third line and fourth line and so forth.


The Agony of Victory

Heaviness sets in as I am overtaken
On unstable ground my soul is shaken

Searching for answers to queries past
I am wearied to the core and will not last

I need a hale hand to raise me up
Even as I dread I drink from my cup


To fulfill the will of Him that sent me
Deep inside my spirit I wail my plea

Is there another way to do this thing
Salvation to the world is what I can bring

Freely given to all souls who obtain
The gift of grace which is what they gain

Three times I asked looking for another way
Sweat fell as blood on the ground where I lay

My followers snooze their flesh is feeble
The spirit is willing ready and able

I am now prepared to take the route
And to give my all to those without

The walk I take is a lonely one
The path of salvation has just begun

I give my life to save the depraved
The widows the orphans and the enslaved

My cross awaits as I journey on
I must keep going or their hope is gone

I commend my spirit into Father's hands
Give up the ghost so you will understand

I died on the cross for you this day
I gave a price that you cannot pay

I redeemed you from sin and the bonds of Satan
All your crooked paths I will straighten

I do this for you so you can see
Salvation for all in the agony of victory.



Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.



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