[Editor’s Note: This is a poem by Timisha Campos. This is the first poem I’m publishing of 2018 and I think it’s just the right one! It’s a very special poem indeed, and I love poetry. It just makes me feel.]
The Meaning of Living
You arrive, and in the moment of your entrance the elements of the world you now invade attaches its force on you
You grow, and the soils of the earth deep in you begins to sing the stepping stone song
As you take your first steps, your first lessons you are not shielded from the forms all around you
For even in infancy life shall reign
You thrust forward, no more shall you crawl for your mind speaks to your limbs, you no longer can stay down…. stand tall
As you usher through into the span of time reserved for you, you are aging
Out of the old form of what you came as, into the new of what you will become
You will find mercy for a time in the ignorance of your exploration
Surely sounds and wonders were here before you existed, yet they held you, waited upon another like you
It did not change or shift, but you shall change, you shall shift
No longer is there the warmth of a mothers’ communicating arms that speaks nurture, or the protective shields of a father’s adoration
Life sees you, it enters you and it pours unto you ever flowing
Eyes widen, senses explode, now you run
You run to grab, to taste, to touch
You learn to feel, to love and trust
Your discovery isn’t in the footprints once held,
imprinted by meager foundations
For now, you take portions of the soul firmly planted
and the souls of life around take portions of you
Stings and shots of pain fill the senses for a spell
As your life releases the coping mechanism of what it means to recover
Life reserved happiness and joy on the day you entered, yet no promise that you would be cradled there for too long
Though the strife and song of life has brought you through, it surrenders only to its true self
To hold you suspended, for a time that you should accomplish the goal of what it has given
To thrive here, to embark here, to stage the great expectation of who and what you mean to life
What kindness life had, the day you encountered its mercy, for in the joy of your arrival and the happiness of your stay
It is most certainly guaranteed that your departure will leave sadness and a void
For with joy you came and with heartbreak, now you are gone
Timisha (Misha) Campos is a 45 year old mother of two grown children and a grandmother. She was born and raised in the Bronx, in New York City. She is a full time Administrative Assistant and has always loved being a Secretary. Timisha accepted Christ as her Lord and Savior in her early twenties and knew from just being a baby in Christ what her calling was; to encourage, edify and lift up through writing. Today she is ready to step forward by faith and encourage others through devotionals and poetry with the promise that God is able and willing to change the heart, mind and soul. For though even today Timisha is still walking out some storms in her life, she continues to dance in the rain.
I write Poems for God, I write Poems to encourage people, I write Poems for Love.
Rochelle Marie is a radiant and beautiful soul who enjoys writing from life experiences that has uniquely blossomed and shaped her into a profound woman. She is a poet who also enjoys writing devotionals that shed light on where God has rescued her from, along with her daily walk with Jesus Christ. Her desire is to inspire and empower women to stride in confidence of who God has called them to be.
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Debbie Harris is a poet, counselor, performer, and passionate Bible Student. She is the author of two poetry books, Which Church Am I? and 365 Christ Centered Contemplative Poems (to be published in 2015.) Her passion is to further the kingdom of Jesus Christ through Christian poetry. Please drop by and visit her on her daily blog. 
Besides being insanely in love with Yahweh, Zimkita Nogela is a South African 21 year old pesceterian accounting student with a passion for writing and reading all types of literature, and is especially fond of poetry. She is a missionary at heart and founder of Daughters of Zion, an NPO that’s aimed at uplifting and propelling women previously bound by the chains of prostitution and human trafficking and abuse to unleash the Esther within by restoring them through Christ to their God-given Identity.
[Guest post by Alejandra Sanchez: Woo hoo! Our first poetry submission! I hope you enjoy, and can be inspired. Thanks, Alejandra!]
Alejandra Sanchez is a writer and poet. A lover of animals, nature and fitness, she lives in the country side of Mercedes Texas RioGrande Valley. She believes all woman are loved more than they ever know and are destined for greatness.