Heavy Burdens

A story of Depression

 

Heavy burdens hard to bear

Many idols not to wear

Many lives are in despair

Feel life treats them so unfair

 

Not the way they hoped life be

Happy, and from troubles free

Slipped a mickey in their drink

And from there their lives did sink

 

Walked away from what was true

Dabbled in what to them glued

Looking not to life renew

Not life purpose followed through

 

So they went from drink to drink

And continued them to sink

Drugs inhibited them to think

Troubled minds are on the brink

 

Tragedy now settles in

Keeps on losing, not to win

Going now from this to that

Daily changing every hat

 

Fights against what he knows true

Not to God gives honor due

Finds escapes, the truth not face

But the truth he can’t erase

 

Run from truth into escape

Never solves what is life’s fate

Takes no troubles to their grave

Broken lives it does not save

 

Only hope to God resign

Nothing you can do will find

Hope and healing, burdens gone

Unless to Christ you belong

 

Leave those burdens far behind

Sin’s escapes that made you blind

Give to Christ your life today

Choose to God your life obey

 

An Original Work / August 8, 2022