Poetry

Love’s Great Gain

By Jennifer Bisbee | Published June 23, 2025 | No Comments

The sweet, gentle gaze

Her first day of life

Swaddled with tears of Joy

Only warmth and love, no strife



The warm milk flows across her lips.

Kneading her mama’s breast

She gazes into her eyes yet again.

She drifts off to dreamland and rests




Her first steps, her first fall

What is this pain?

She smells familiarity

Comforted, safe, love is her refrain.



Growing forever growing

She sees anger, rage

Her heart breaks and weeps

This is so foreign to her heart; she turns the page.



Complexity replaces simple love.

Confusion replaces her comfort.

This world is not safe.

Shame, guilt, and sorrow begin her retort.



I’m never enough

What have I become?

Is there any hope left at all?

I can’t be from here. Where did I come from?



Lies, lies, and more lies.

Deception, sorrow and grief

A broken heart and shattered dreams.

Nothing is as it seems. Where O where is my relief?



Mercy, please have mercy.

There is nothing left

Where is the love I thought I once knew?

I run and hide in the cleft.



Angels come and minister.

His Spirit speaks to her soul.

Love is real, He says

Don’t use your senses to know, and I’ll make you whole.



He picks up all the shattered pieces with gentleness and Love.

Watch me move away from this mountain.

Look only to me

Joy springs up from her fountain.



I’ve given you a gift born out of my love.

It grew and manifested

Loneliness and darkness are required.

To challenge that seed that was once dead


For out of the dying comes new life

Out of rejection and loss

Comes real, true love

Now Father has cut off that albatross.



Renewal, change, and growth

For everything that left her presence

Made room for her to spread her wings

Her energy soared with such resonance.




She has now become her destiny.

With much understanding and power

This graceful warrior realized

Twas the darkness all along she needed to devour



This was only possible.

Because Abba Father

Sent His son out of love

To bear it all and save her forever and ever!!!



She was born of destiny.

She had to choose to walk in obedience.

She had to have Faith and humility.

She now stands in His presence.




©2018 Jenny Bisbee