"As a Wave" & "Tonight" Poems by Michael Hartland

As a Wave

As a wave

            God swept me away

The sands of my stability

            dissolved

But drowning

            was a baptism

I found myself standing

            on a rock

With a new heart

            and a bold new face

Gazing at a beautiful new horizon

            with a sun that never sets.

Tonight

Tonight I felt at peace

I let God be

tonight I left off doubting

for I could see

That God is the ground of our being

with him all things make sense

and the worship he requires

is our obedience.