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Why Are You Downcast, O My Soul?


This year I am trying to write poems all on my theme word for the year, hope. This one is exploring Psalm 42:11 in greater detail with adding in lessons from our WBS psalm, Psalm 34. The last stanza adds in a bit of 1 Peter 2 from the sermon. (Written in February 2023)


Why are you downcast, o my soul?

Wild winds whirl deep within

Recklessly whip and flay my skin.


Why are you downcast, o my soul?

The specter of evil haunts me day and night

Clouds and obscures my sight.


Why are you downcast, o my soul?

Pain hounds and hunts me down  

Successive sorrows pummel and pound.


Why are you downcast, o my soul?

Faltering faith coaxes me to revive

Seeds of the promises hidden deep inside.


Why are you downcast, o my soul?

Hush my fears in perfect love

Lift my gaze from the present to reality above.


Why are you downcast, o my soul?

Sing anew the songs of trust

Emblazon the memories of His faithfulness.


Why are you downcast, o my soul?

Build me up in the ever living One

Image me now in the radiance of the Son   

Hope in the Lord.

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