Read by Dana Whiteacre with background music “Walk With Me, Lord” by Danny Denson and Michael Card:
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Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
I’m a long long way from home.
The folks in church are singing love songs.
But I feel like singing the blues.
A good twelve-bar blues
With a harmonica moanin’ low and sad.
Because you’re gone.
You’re gone and I’m still here waiting.
Everyone tells me you’re never coming back.
But I keep looking out the window.
Why did you have to go?
It would be one thing if you’d just up and left.
But your spirit bangs around in my head and my heart.
Leaves me feelin’ like a kook with tinfoil in his hat.
True believer. Yep, that’s me.
Staring into space. Talking to the walls.
Because I’m a true believer and I know you’re coming back.
I hope you’re coming back.
But sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
Sweet Jesus, Savior of my soul, take my body as well.
I’m looking out the window and waiting for you to come back.
I’m a long long way from home.
The Cyber-Psalms
I can’t scan it into a twelve-bar, but apart from that I love it!
I can squeeze a shopping list into twelve-bar blues. Glad you liked it.
I came over here to see how you were waking this morning. (Thanks for the links yesterday). Blue like jazz–Donald Miller steals that for a book title saying it never resolves–but it wouldn’t be blue if we really believed Never and what Everyone tells me. Thanks for Cyber-Psalm 30.
Sing it, brother.
The smile that comes to my heart and face by singing the blues is richer and deeper and truly more joyful to me than any song which flippantly proclaims life and faith in simple and solely victorious and happy terms. Thanks for putting such beautiful words to the pleasantly blues tune running through my spirit as I keep choosing to walk in faith in a fallen world. I read this right after the poem posted at Ancient Hebrew Poetry (which I don’t know how to link to in a comment), and the impact of the two together was very great.
Yeah, baby, you’re the Billie Holiday of the Bible Blogosphere.
Sing it Brother… Sing it loud… let the whole world hear.