Lord God, You are our fortress and our strength, our refuge while embattled frontlines burn. Although the siege seems endless in its length, the clamouring advance will surely turn. The watchman's prayerful focus will discern when hissing hoards begin to melt away, like taloned beasts retreating from their prey.
A constant river flows with sparkling streams of gladness and ethereal delight, within a city built of gold that gleams eternally in rainbow patterned light, as gems of many colours shimmer bright. Within this realm of God’s protective will, His children, safely sheltered, can be still.
This poem is based on Psalm 46. It is written in the Rhyme Royal form, in iambic pentameter. A Rhyme Royal stanza has seven lines in the following rhyming pattern: ababbcc. There is no limit to the number stanzas. This form was first used in English verse in the 14th century by Geoffrey Chaucer in Troilus and Criseyde and The Parlement of Foules.
