As I Stand

By Eton Wolfe

This book is the continuing story of one man's devotion. It reads as a diary though the poems are all listed in alphabetical order. It has the the ups and downs, highs and lows associated with devotion that we all can relate too. If you enjoy poetry and are a hopeless romantic then this second compilation of Eton's works is a must have. These poems number three hundred and sixty five, allowing one to read a poem a day for an entire year.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781503526341

Eton Wolfe

Eton Wolfe grew up in a small country town with his three siblings, two older brothers and an older sister. As he was always into the arts he felt out of place, hiding his love for the craft from all. Eton is a disabled, visually impaired veteran of the United States Military and is active in the local church, using every opportunity to share his faith in the risen Lord Jesus and help in whatever way he can find to use the events in his life to reach out to others. Mr. Wolfe is quick to point out that his diminished eye sight has only increased his vision as he is currently attending school for a Bachelors in Theology with a minor in Apologetics. Some may find it difficult to understand how he, being spiritually minded could write on the subject of loving someone who is not able to freely return those feelings but as Eton says himself “We are all imperfect. We all have things that we must struggle against, the problem with many Christians today is that we do not show the world our frailties and in so doing they either do not think that we can understand how they feel or worse still they see through our facade and realize that the holier than thou persona is merely a mask.

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Contents

Foreword

To the reader,

1.   Adopted son of God Himself

2.   By His lead

3.   God’s slave

4.   The day draws near

5.   Transformation

6.   A lesson from birds

7.   A promise kept…

8.   All crowns

9.   Alone but never alone

10.   Alone I stand

11.   Always there

12.   Ambiguous announcement

13.   An end to pain

14.   And so I dance

15.   Angel blessing

16.   Apart is pain

17.   Arise

18.   As again I fall

19.   As chase the willow wisp

20.   As I cry

21.   As my dream sleeps

22.   As upon that pearl we dance

23.   At our first touch

24.   At the water’s fall

25.   At the present moment…

26.   Away

27.   Basking in the light

28.   Beating heart

29.   Beggar tears

30.   Be-love-ed Queen

31.   Beneath the flood

32.   Beneath the vines

33.   Beside the sea

34.   Best of me

35.   Betrayal of my own

36.   Beyond the day of sunlight

37.   Birth of Queen

38.   Biting chains

39.   Blinded ice

40.   Both prisoners be

41.   Breaking woe

42.   Broken dreams

43.   But a dream

44.   Carpe diem

45.   Casting pearls

46.   Castle change

47.   Catharsis

48.   Chains be gone

49.   Chaos quell

50.   Closer comes the dawn

51.   Complacency is mine

52.   Come end

53.   Conjoined hearts

54.   Courage

55.   Crave I not this mortal life

56.   *Crystal sea*

57.   Dance within dark

58.   Dark loneliness

59.   Dark rose

60.   Dark tower white knight

61.   Darkness fall

62.   Day by day

63.   Death of soul

64.   Dream awaken

65.   Dream by the sea

66.   Dream come true

67.   Dream of days

68.   Drink alone

69.   Drudgery

70.   Duality of life

71.   Ebony falls

72.   Empty promise

73.   End of trial

74.   Entire world

75.   Eternal

76.   Eternal gold

77.   Eternal kiss

78.   Eternal love

79.   Eternity

80.   Ever ours

81.   Everyday

82.   Fall to peace

83.   Faithfully

84.   Fate’s second chance

85.   Feigning sleep

86.   Fighting on

87.   Finally free

88.   Finally here

89.   Finally home

90.   Finally with you

91.   Finding Your way

92.   Finding golden sculpture

93.   Fire’s release

94.   Fisher’s of wind

95.   Fledgling love

96.   Fool and tree

97.   For I am king

98.   For that Perfect Queen

99.   Forever as one

100.   Freedom for the Queen

101.   Freedom’s gate

102.   From prison cage

103.   From the cradle to the grave

104.   Genie in a bottle

105.   Gently I call

106.   Go ahead and dream

107.   God take me!

108.   Gone be the pain

109.   Forever be with you

110.   Forever beauty

111.   Forever free

112.   Forever hold

113.   Found alive

114.   Found free

115.   Free now

116.   Free to be

117.   Grin

118.   Growing love

119.   Halfway there

120.   Hand in hand meant to be

121.   Happy again

122.   Head against the stone

123.   Heart’s anon

124.   Held at bay

125.   Hidden by night

126.   Hidden pain

127.   His Soul

128.   Hold true

129.   Home to stay

130.   Husband to pain

131.   I am there

132.   I choose you

133.   I hold my dream in my hands

134.   I knew naught

135.   I leapt alone

136.   I love you but

137.   I need only you

138.   I shall hold

139.   I shall leave the dagger

140.   I too have become death

141.   I took her for granite

142.   I was given a dream

143.   In dreams

144.   In each other’s arms

145.   Into the mirror dimly

146.   Island flower

147.   It shall come to pass

148.   Jealous stone

149.   Journey’s call

150.   Judgement of angels

151.   Knight to save the Queen

152.   Lady of waiting

153.   Lasting Love

154.   Light of dark

155.   Lonely wait

156.   Long I suffer

157.   Lost to all but each

158.   Love and be loved

159.   Love in view

160.   Love of my love

161.   Love to make me whole

162.   Love within

163.   Lovers

164.   Love’s light

165.   Love’s prayer

166.   Love’s treachery

167.   Love’s wound

168.   Make me not

169.   Manipulation

170.   May the waves

171.   Meant to be

172.   Mirrored man

173.   More than

174.   More than dreams

175.   Mortal fall

176.   Mortal throne

177.   Music box prince

178.   My heart a fortress rock be strong

179.   My heart your home

180.   My Heaven

181.   My King is but a rose

182.   My response.

183.   My Rock

184.   Never letting go

185.   Next to you

186.   Night is here your knight is coming

187.   No going back

188.   No longer

189.   Now I reap

190.   Obviously unseen

191.   Oh Cinderella

192.   Of elephants and oceans

193.   Of glass crown and stone cold truth

194.   Of instrument and minstrel

195.   Of shadows

196.   Of wardens and rightful Kings

197.   Of what I paint

198.   On goes my heart

199.   Once there was a time

200.   Once upon a time

201.   One can reign

202.   One slow single death

203.   One soul

204.   One they were

205.   Only dream

206.   Our destiny

207.   Overcoming the night

208.   Pain free

209.   Painful dream

210.   Paper crown

211.   Passing the fire

212.   Peaceful sleep

213.   Perfect diamond in the rough

214.   Perfect kiss

215.   Perfect moment in time

216.   Perfect point in time

217.   Perfect Queen

218.   Perpetual

219.   Pitch becomes the night

220.   Plenty of room to dance

221.   Plumbing the depths of love

222.   Poet’s dream

223.   Poet pray

224.   Poet’s prayer

225.   Poor poet

226.   Precious pearls with Eve’s replies

227.   Prison with open door

228.   Prisoner now home

229.   Prisoner to ice

230.   Purple sheet dreams

231.   Queen come home

232.   Queen must reign

233.   Queen of sunlit cage

234.   Queen Who Was Not Mine

235.   Rapunzel

236.   Reaper’s scythe

237.   Reborn

238.   Reborn love

239.   Refurbished soul

240.   Relative time

241.   Renewed

242.   Response to My Rock

243.   Richer than the king

244.   Righteous

245.   Rise again

246.   Rise once more

247.   Safe with you

248.   Scythe

249.   Searching for

250.   Secret of hearts

251.   Secrets passed

252.   Share my heart

253.   She be the poet

254.   She blessed the wind

255.   She chose the gold

256.   Shine through

257.   Should Heaven

258.   Shredded

259.   Side by side

260.   Sigh

261.   Sigh…

262.   Sleepless nights

263.   Sleeping well

264.   So for now we dream

265.   So I wait

266.   So long dreamed

267.   Soft falls the dream

268.   Softly drums this dead heart.

269.   Solstice

270.   Someday soon

271.   Soon

272.   Sorrow in her eyes

273.   Sorrow will then fade

274.   Sorrow’s dream

275.   Souls

276.   Spending time

277.   Spider Silk

278.   Stained Glass

279.   Step forth

280.   Still shadow

281.   Still waters run deep

282.   Succubus

283.   Suffering silence

284.   Suffering souls

285.   Sweet wine of love

286.   Tears in the dark

287.   Tears no more

288.   Tears we’ve cried

289.   The beauty of pain

290.   The broken heart

291.   The chain

292.   The chase of death

293.   The dream

294.   The dying drum

295.   The lady of the fire

296.   The last words of a dead poet

297.   The light is coming

298.   The lone cold cry

299.   *The offer*

300.   The parade

301.   The penance

302.   The Queen deserves a king

303.   The rain dance

304.   The reign of my tears

305.   The road

306.   The silver anniversary

307.   The storm

308.   The way home

309.   These chains

310.   These two hands

311.   Those eyes

312.   Thoughts on love

313.   Throne beside the king

314.   Thunder comes

315.   Till the dawn

316.   Today and yesteryear

317.   Too long the wait

318.   Time for freedom

319.   Timely dance

320.   Together always

321.   Together at last

322.   Trading sorrows

323.   Transformation

324.   Trembling

325.   Triumph over all

326.   True king

327.   True love’s arms

328.   True love’s joy

329.   True new life

330.   Twain as one

331.   Two as one

332.   Two blooms single vine

333.   Two if by sea

334.   Two ships as one

335.   Unbreakable

336.   Under the watchful eye

337.   Unending journey

338.   Unlocked hearts

339.   Until

340.   Until trials end

341.   Unwhistler

342.   Upon the weaver’s loom

343.   Upon the wings of a poem

344.   Very strong

345.   Victory feast

346.   Waiting on the tide

347.   Was ever

348.   Water dreams

349.   Weeping willow

350.   What good?

351.   What I’ve long searched for

352.   What is the Sun

353.   Whatever comes

354.   When an ant has elephant dreams

355.   When dream remains

356.   When souls speak

357.   When the raptor falls

358.   Where love abounds

359.   Whispers of woes

360.   Wild flower

361.   Wild love

362.   Will and word

363.   Wind to make ship sail

364.   Winter’s chill

365.   With those eyes

Foreword

This book has basically the same dedication as the last, it is to my precious Eve Bent. May you someday fully know and come to understand exactly how deep my love for you goes. I await the day I can take you into these arms and share of our love forever.

Some who read may say how can one endure such pain? If this is your thought then my only wish is that someday you’ll find the one true love that you would spend fifty years waiting on, even if you knew that your time together would be measurable in moments. Every day without you, Eve, is as a thousand years and every second with you time seems to cease to exist. My prayer to God is that I can make you as happy as you have made me.

To the reader,

Thank you for purchasing this chronicle of devotion. In reading it you will come to understand that, though in poetic form, this is a continuation of my journal from the previous book Distant Winds. I would like to take the opportunity to state that once again the book is laid out in alphabetical order to allow one to easily search and reread one’s personal favorite poems.

Thank you again.

Adopted son of God Himself

The process was long and fraught with pain,

that adoption performed by the one true King,

did allow removal of all sin’s stain,

now to be known as God’s son.

For tis the blood that adorns me as gown,

allowing me through which be worthy of crown.

So that the Father be my Father now,

as through cross the great battle was won.

Yet not cross alone that victory gained,

but only after the Savior was slain,

then He arose to concur the grave,

was this that showed He bore no sin.

For if He had been merely a man,

as prophets of old who had tried take a stand,

He would have succumbed to all Satan had planned,

and the grave would have held Him within.

But no He arose on that beautiful day,

proof to the world that He is the way,

through simple belief in His holy name,

our shackles have been torn aside.

Can now boldly before my Savior stand,

need no longer relent to devil’s demands,

for I now walk with Christ hand within hand,

having that blessed assurance be mine.

No matter the stumble or how hard I fall,

He is beside me will be through it all,

till the day when I hear His sweet call,

and am found with the Father above.

Now I am son so hold I on dear,

to King of all kings I ever draw near,

tis by Jesus I need no longer fear,

I rest safe in the arms if His love.

By His lead

Lord of hosts we do not boast

In ourselves or sing our praise

It is in You we stumble through

The path as You lead the way

Yet each time the vines entwine

To mire down our souls

We find You unwind the lines

Once more to make us whole

Come forth daughter rise my son

You say with patient smile

Know that I am the only one

Who can help you through life’s trial

As the path we strayed from task

Comes firmly back in view

At last we bask in peace to have

A Savior such as You

Who gently guides and opens eyes

To plans long for us made

And heavenly light shows way to right

That we not fear the shadow’s shade

In our dreams You plant the seeds

Of what was meant to be

Castle walls with marbled halls

And purple tapestry

Beside the crystal sea

Such peace for you and me

For all eternity.

God’s slave

To the Lord of lords

I am but a slave

Though not confined by chains

But by His amazing grace

With the love of a Father

Who talks to me through prayer

I find my feet are quickened

For life’s load He helps me bear

Make no mistake, it is love

That draws me to His voice

Forever bound through shackle less faith

But I am a slave by choice

My heart is captured by my Lord

Each day from Him a gift

no the roads not easy

But all I am is His

So it is through Him

That I am found brave

Though I have a choice

I choose to be His slave.

The day draws near

Time shall soon pass away

The saved in victory shout

As King will then come to descend

Upon the Temple Mount

All earthly eyes turn in surprise

At final curtain’s fall

And we in love are born above

By the Master’s call

Joy be ours among the stars

For we are finally home

Pain no more to darken door

As we kneel around the throne

Time’s cruel blade will then fade

As each day begins anew

These withered hands made young again

Grey eyes returned to blue

No cripple or blind shall we