And Yet I Will Rejoice

A darkness overcame the earth

Negating all things of worth

Destroying things everywhere

You could feel universal despair

Every garden once toiled was now dead

There were no fresh sprouts in the garden bed

I looked about me and I could see

Withering leaves and no fruit on the tree

In the fields the once healthy herd

Looked wasted and in a word

Life was sapped endlessly

Rams and ewes no longer had fertility

Every fig tree was blossomless and no fruit were in the vines

John had warned us these were the Last Day signs

On this I believed and despite what I had seen

I anticipated my Lord and what these signs mean

Calmness overcame me for I had long made my choice

Exalted my Lord for though there is chaos, Yet Will I Rejoice