Oasis (Raymond Sutherland)

(Raymond is a Christian poet and friend in Christ who lives in Aberdeen, Scotland.  He is not a follower of my religion, as many of my readers are not.  "Oasis" is from his book, Life's Tapestry, 2008)



I found amidst the bustling throng

    The busy grind of city life

    That offers such unrestfulness

    And steals away all calm repose

    While walking in the urban  hour

When teeming masses swarm abroad

    And vehicle voices roar and rail

Stretched nose to tail and road to road

     A place?  For lack of better word

   A spread of peace?  What can I say?

      An acreage of restfulness

      An area of tranquility?

   Well anyway, I found a bench

That in its day had once been brown

   And sat and ate some sandwiches

    There in the middle of the town.

Now in that place a peace came down

    Or maybe it had always been

  At any rate it wrapped me round

   And ah!  I felt a sense of Him.