Promises Of Yesterday

Promises of Yesterday 

fly my way

OH where are you?

How I have longed for you to come!

I sit here waiting.

I'm wondering if you've forgotten. Did you get stuck somewhere? 

Did you think I stopped hoping? Did you take an intermission?

But I wait for you here, oh promises made to me

so long ago when I first believed.

I look for you in the open air. I look for you in secret.

I look for you in corners and cracks. I'm holding on, though I can't see it.

For the One who created you will not let me down.

He will see to it you arrive. He's a great Delivery Man!

I'm really not worried, though I appear a bit antsy.

Forgive me as I tap my foot, but you're such a long time in coming!

Oh wait! What is that?

I see something in the distance!

Could it be? Oh wow! Oh me!

Promise of Yesterday!

Did you finally find your way to me??

At first you look a little blurry,

but the closer you come, the more clearly I see!

Yes! Yes, you're coming toward me!

My eyes well up with tears.

It's the moment I've been waiting for --

the arrival of promises made long ago, even many years.

What joy I feel but not just for the promise.

He did what He said He'd do, 

and for that I'm filled with thankfulness.

I'm just so glad I stuck around,

otherwise I would have missed it. 

Thank you, Thank you Promise Maker

for helping me hold on

so I could be here, 

be here to witness it!