Black Cloud Overhead
The black cloud overhead
filled with lightning bolts of trouble
is a swirling tornado
that has chosen him to follow.
Lightning strikes the path he chooses
and burns every bridge he crosses.
The tornado wind left traces
of anger upon his face.
Now trouble touches all around him
damaging structures that once stood firm
slamming doors that once were open
and twisting friendships now forsaken.
He's facing yet another river
and wonders now how he'll cross over.
The bridge he burned still smolders,
and he wonders who will rebuild it.
He sees the black cloud overhead
with its lightning bolts of trouble
hurling its tornado wind toward him
and asks
"Why have you chosen me to follow?"
The black cloud looks down on him
with a menacing, mocking grin
swirling trouble all around him
and says
"That's for you to figure out!"
is a swirling tornado
that has chosen him to follow.
Lightning strikes the path he chooses
and burns every bridge he crosses.
The tornado wind left traces
of anger upon his face.
Now trouble touches all around him
damaging structures that once stood firm
slamming doors that once were open
and twisting friendships now forsaken.
He's facing yet another river
and wonders now how he'll cross over.
The bridge he burned still smolders,
and he wonders who will rebuild it.
He sees the black cloud overhead
with its lightning bolts of trouble
hurling its tornado wind toward him
and asks
"Why have you chosen me to follow?"
The black cloud looks down on him
with a menacing, mocking grin
swirling trouble all around him
and says
"That's for you to figure out!"
Francene Hopkins
2000 (c)
I'll leave this one to your own interpretation but will say it was written about one of my sons who was going through a bad divorce that he did not want. The loss of his wife, daughter, home, job, and friends was almost more than he could take. I have never before or since seen anyone take the loss as hard as he did. Today he is a fine man who has rebuilt his life, and is still in the process of rebuilding. Thanks be to God for his hand on my son.
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