Beyond All Imagination

By the time I had grown I had known all to man

Every situation confronted in God’s plan

Years ago when I started out

On troubled treks I walked with no fear or doubt

Nothing daunted me from my path

Didn’t cry when others did, I chose to laugh

And when friends turn around and started back

Life rushed through my veins and my mode was attack

Learned the agonies only few ever come to know

I felt a baseball bat gave the back of my head a terrible blow

My stomach torn with an assailant’s knife

A fracture rib piercing my lung and threatening my life

Gunshots to my body you name a part

I felt the electricity race through my body and consciousness depart

None of the pains I used to imagine was like this I felt

A love unrequited that made my insides melt

The feeling of my heart pulled from my chest

I was drowning, air thinned around me, I felt like a cardiac arrest

Over, its over she said and meant my life was done

None of the pain I used to imagine was as cruel as this one