Enthralled

Incredibly enthralled in books of old

These stories told, sometimes sung

All wrapped up in the folds of time

There, where hearts unfold

They gave my heart and mind a home

Valor and glory to find, I reach out to find

In a trance I am trapped

The light always defeated the dark

But what would that story be without the fight?

What the story didn't say is that I live there too

In the beautiful stories they sew

I did not know, Narnia is my home too

But each of my homes were but a representation

A reflection of the greater fight

An adoration of the work already done

To call them fairytale is unfair

For in my need they reminded me

That my battle was won by a redeeming care

But we fight still, alongside the conqueror

Who already won my heart

Though I am a wanderer

For I have strayed

Like Edmond I have betrayed Him

But like Aslan, He renewed me

Like Lucy I failed to follow

Follow Him despite the others

But He came for me anyway

And like the beavers, I will have faith

Assurance of the spring

And the trees will dance again

For the day of the Return of the King came

As in Gondor, as was promised

As will my King return to reign

And despite my inability

Like Frodo's stubborn grasp on the ring,

He uses me anyway, in my futility

The ring was still destroyed

The stone table, broken

Through the strife, the light only shines brighter

And from death the world was set free

And until I go to my new home,

I will be a friend to you, as Sam Gamgee was to me

Jamie Willis

07/02/22