Break the Circle

Story by Rob MacWolf on SoFurry

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#34 of poetry

I didn't even grow up with this hymn, but once having heard it, I couldn't leave it un-contradicted.


I went walking by the harbor

As the day went down to dark.

I went searching through my sorrows

For a place to rest my heart.

Will the circle be unbroken

By and by? By and by?

Is a better home awaiting

In the sky, Lord, in the sky?

There are loved ones in my memory

I can call now only 'ones.'

There are places long behind me

That were home once. Gone and done.

Will the circle be unbroken?

How should I know? How should I?

But a better home awaits me

With the Sky Lord, in the sky.

I remember, words of comfort

That were truer than you guessed.

How the poor may yet blessed

In the islands of the blest.

I remember from the hymnals,

Though you thought I lost my place.

Yet I've seen, and can confirm there

Is a more amazing grace.

I remember every last word

That you ever taught to me.

Face to face I saw it clearly

And the truth has set me free.

Will the circle be unbroken?

Turns out that was up to you.

While your eyes were fixed on heaven

What on earth, on earth, did you?

There are other worlds than this one.

There are deeper deaths to die.

There are better lives awaiting

On the other other side.

If the circle, it is broken,

Then so be it. Then goodbye.

I will seek a better circle

By and by. By and by.