Legacy Song

By Albert J. Corey

Legacy Song is a collection of poems and one short
story which brings to life the process of growing older
through the real-life experiences of the author. Every
life is different, every experience is different from one
person to the next, but a life allowed to be transformed
by Jesus will make all the difference.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 28, 2024
• ISBN: 9798823034081

Albert J. Corey

Albert J. Corey was born in Mahopac, New York, graduated high school in 1966 and served in the US Navy for four years. He later received a master’s degree in theology from the Christian Life School of Theology, Beacon College, in Columbus, Georgia. Worked as a designer for Pawling Engineering Products in Pawling, NY for 41 years before retiring in 2015. His many interests include art, music, crafts, collecting, writing, and most of all, Jesus. His life has been an ongoing challenge to fi nd out what God has in store for him every day.

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Published by AuthorHouse  10/25/2024

ISBN: 979-8-8230-3409-8 (sc)

ISBN: 979-8-8230-3408-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2024920932

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Contents

Poem: To Create

Poem: The Song

Poem: You Never Know

Poem: When We Die

Forward

Chapter One: Learning

Haikus

When a Child is Born

Lantern

Just Once Before I Die

When

Or Three

Chapter 1A: Decisions

A Little More Hurt

When You’re Stung

Every Once in A While

I Close My Eyes

Your Love is Enough

Chapter Two: Growth

Haikus

Jericho

A Beam of Light

A Tree of Red

Byroads

Here

Waiting For Change

Seeds in the Wind

Baptism

Chapter 2A: Second Chances?

How Fragile

Does Anyone . . .

Chapter Three: Changes

Haikus

One

Forgiveness

Yet a Little Love . . .

Peace

Will You Listen?

If You Allow

Chapter Four: A Firm Road

Haikus

God’s Hands

The River Will Always March

Stairs

U & I

A Journey

It’s a Long Way

The Place Where You

Stand is Yours

Chapter Five: Reaching Retirement

Haikus

Yesterday

There is a Feeling in Autumn

When is a Road Not a Road?

Would You Ever Know?

Sometimes Grass Grows in the Road

Clouds

Chapter Six: That Thing Called Mourning

Haikus

Lady Slippers

Your Best Friend

Why do Flowers Weep?

You’ll Leave Here Alone

An Old Apple Tree

Chapter 6A: Moving

Top of the Hill (for Dave)

Chapter 6B: Keeping Friends

Learning to Mourn

Clinging

Though You’ve Passed from This Earth

Maybe Tomorrow

Summer Morning

She Never Said a Word

Chapter 6C: Alone

Sleep Softly My Son

Jochebed

When You Go Away

Alone

Old Letters

When Someone Cries Alone

Chapter Seven: Dealing With Things

Haikus

No One Sees Us

Feather on the Ground

Battlefields

Come to the Shelter

There’s a Flower in the Field

Please

The Little Wooden Cross

Chapter Eight: So Now What?

Haikus

By the Light of a Single Candlestick

Tears of Stone

The Sin Inside

Night Watch

Chapter Nine: Hard Won Wisdom & Experiences

Haikus

But God

A Fallen Rose

America

Chapter Ten: Stories & Such

Haikus

Five Dollar Bill

The Heather and The Stone

The Bayou

I Don’t Miss the Whales

Golden Eagle

You Own . . .

Chapter 10A: Christmas

I Came Across a Manger

Late Last Night

Board By Board

Chapter Eleven: Contemplations

Haikus

The Minstrel

For You

Memories

Jeremiah 6:16

Times Like These

Chapter Twelve: Parting Thoughts

Haikus

Dancing on my Bed

If

A River Runs Through Me

I’m Told

Bible Math

The Dance

A Fire in My Heart

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T his book is dedicated to our Lord Jesus Christ without whom I wouldn’t be here, and I would not have been given any purpose or road to follow in this life. He gets all the honor and the glory.

I want to say THANK YOU to Beth Ferris, a special friend who helped me put this book together and who has a knack for finding the things I for some reason constantly miss.

Also, a shout-out and love to Pastor Chip McGee, Worship Leader Lindsey McGee and Celebrate Recovery Pastor Brian King without whose dedication to the ministries at our church I would not have been inspired to write some of the poems included.

To Create

Standing against a world of darkness

With no words at my command

Just a desire to create something

To add more beauty if I can

Not because it will be better

Than anything written before

More like a new instrument

Never heard at all

Wanting to join the band

Not to be the star

Just wanting to add another note

To the melody or harmony bar

Hoping others will understand

Wanting to say, I was here

Before this precious life I have

Disappears

The Song

Do not let the song go out of your life.

Fight with all the strength you have.

For once the song inside you dies

And the words no longer rhyme,

Your song will lie on the Cutter’s floor,

And there will be . . .

No more time

You Never Know

Cherish all your friends

Admire the works of God

Dance while you can

Befriend a stranger

Lift up the poor

Love the unlovable

Pray without ceasing

For you never know

What life will bring

And rarely

Get to know why

When We Die

When we die

In those years by and by

What is left to mark our time

Our sojourn in this place?

Will there be signs

To say we passed here

Or did anything change

At all?

Forward

A s age sets in some things tend to concern us more than when we were young. We are not able to do some of the physical things or remember many of the things we could easily do before. As we get older our reliance on God feels like it needs to increase, but it really should still be the same if we have been following Christ and relying on Him all through our lives. We should continue to praise God and thank Him for all the things in our lives: our health, our welfare, the air we breathe, the lives we have