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  • A Life Waiting to Be Lived
  • Emily Jones Hudson (bio)

SOMEWHERE A CHILD SITS ON A STOOP HIS GAZE TURNED TOWARD TOWERS OF GLASS AND STONE TRYING TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF THE SUN TO DRINK IN ITS RAYS OF HOPE BUT HIS EYES DRINK ONLY DESPAIR SOMEWHERE DEEP WITHIN HIS SOUL THERE’S A SONG INSIDE WAITING TO BE SUNG THERE’S A POEM INSIDE WAITING TO BE WRITTEN THERE’S A LIFE INSIDE WAITING TO BE LIVED

SOMEWHERE IN A DARK, DIRTY ALLEY A WOMAN SLEEPS ON YESTERDAY’S HEADLINES CHASING A DREAM, BUT CATCHING A NIGHTMARE SHE STEPPED OUT OF LIFE THINKING NO ONE CARES DARKNESS BECOMING BOTH FRIEND AND FOE BUT SOMEWHERE DEEP WITHIN HER SOUL THERE’S A SONG INSIDE WAITING TO BE SUNG THERE’S A POEM INSIDE WAITING TO BE WRITTEN THERE’S A LIFE INSIDE WAITING TO BE LIVED

WHO WILL OFFER HIM A HAND OF HOPE WHO WILL WAKE HER FROM HER NIGHTMARE WHO WILL OPEN THE PRISON DOOR TO RELEASE THE SONG WAITING TO BE SUNG SET FREE THE POEM WAITING TO BE WRITTEN SPRING THE LIFE WAITING TO BE LIVED …WOULD YOU? [End Page 106]

Emily Jones Hudson

Emily Jones Hudson grew up in Hazard, Kentucky, and moved back a dozen years ago. She works for Appalachian Regional Heathcare and is the founder and pastor of CommonBond Christian Fellowship Ministries.

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