ONCE WAS ENOUGH

ONCE WAS ENOUGH

CONCEIVED I WAS

IN UNFELT PAIN

I STARTED DESCENDING

LIKE DROPS OF RAIN

AND DOWN TO EARTH

AS A SWORD, I FELL

WHILE HEAVEN CRIED

AND SO DID HELL

I LEFT THE GLORY

AND FOUND THE DIRT

I TASTED LOVE

WHICH BROUGHT THE HURT

AND MY LIFE STARTED

TO BRING THE END

AND I CRIED, BLOOD STAINED

FOR WAYWARD MEN

MY MOTHER HELD ME

MY FATHER TURNED

MY MIND, REPLAYING

THE THINGS I'D LEARNED

AND ALL THE WHILE

THE SHADOWS GREW

AROUND THE BLIND ONES

WHO SAW THE TRUE

THE ONES WHO HATED

THE ONES WHO LIED

AND TORE MY GARMENTS

THERE AS I CRIED

THE PAIN I BORE THEN

NO ONE COULD MEASURE

NO MAN  APPRAISES

THE THINGS I TREASURE

FOR IN THAT DARKNESS

I HUNG ALONE

AND PRAYED FOR STRENGTH

AND WEPT FOR HOME

EARTH SPLIT ASUNDER

THE HEAVENS RANG

BLIND EYES WERE OPENED

AND CHILDREN SANG

BUT IN THAT MOMENT

OF UNKNOWN DEATH

MY LUNGS EXPELLED

THAT MORTAL BREATH

AND I AWAKENED

IN CAVERNS DEEP

WHERE MEN RAN SCREAMING

AND DID NOT SLEEP

THEY KNEW MY NAME THERE

THEY KNEW MY FACE

THOUGH THEY'D NEVER SEEN ME

OR KNOWN MY GRACE

AND I BEHELD THEM

AND HUNG MY HEAD

WITH SORROW BURDENED

FOR THE TRULY DEAD

ACROSS THE CHASM

I SAW THE OTHERS

MY LOVED ONES, WAITING

MY FRIENDS, MY BROTHERS

THEY SAW ME COMING

THEIR HANDS, THEY RAISED

THEY DANCED IN JOY

MY NAME, THEY PRAISED

I TOOK THEM WITH ME

UP TO THE SKY

NO MORE TO SUFFER

NO MORE TO DIE

ASCENDING NOW

FROM THAT DESCENT

I FOUND THOSE TO WHICH

I HAD BEEN SENT

AND LIKE THE LIGHTNING

AND LIKE THE RAIN

THE GLORY FELL

AND HEALED THE PAIN

TO AN ANCIENT PLACE

AND ALL IT'S PLEASURES

I CARRIED ALL 

MY EARTHLY TREASURES

AND MANY HUNGRY

FOR THE LOVE I GIVE

WILL BE TRANSPORTED

TO THE PLACE I LIVE

VESSELS OF LIGHT

WHO'VE KEPT THE VOW

WILL BE TRANSFIGURED

THOUGH CLAY FORMED NOW

AND COUNTLESS CHILDREN

LIKE GRAINS OF SAND

WILL LIVE FOREVER

WITHIN MY HANDS

WOULD I DO IT OVER?

THE DEATH FOR SIN?

A MILLION TIMES

I'D DIE FOR MEN

BUT THERE'S NO NEED

TO AGAIN, REBUFF

HELL'S POWER IS BROKEN

ONCE WAS ENOUGH.

©BY Voo

MAY 1, 2011

12:37 A.M.

during a storm

WITHOUT HIM
 sung by Elvis Presley, my cousin
a beautiful song that was written
 by my other cousin, Mylon LeFevre
when he was 17 yrs old..................