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Recorded from SWC podcast of April 26,2015 - Days of Ezekiel

*the first line of this poetry was accidentally cut. so the recorded file starts on the second line.

Valley of Dry Bones
by Raizel Eunice Gautier Panisa


I was stuck in the depths of a pit
And if there were millions of ladders that came down
None of them could save me

My arms were useless – my legs as stiff as wood
If breath escaped my lungs,
I could not feel an ounce of it
The smoldering heat from the sun up above was enough to bake me a meal
And yet not a bead of sweat trickled down my face
There was no rustling of leaves, no whistling of wind

But then suddenly there’s this voice that comes
From way up high
Resonating and rattling
The heap of dry bones on which I stand
Massive heaps and heaps of peculiar bones
That filled the desolate, wasted pit – almost like a valley

And the voice, he says – “Wake up.”
And I – don’t understand because
My eyes were wide open
Yet he asks me to wake up?

I tried to reach out – tried to see whom the voice belonged to
But nothing of me seemed to move –
Not a hair, not a foot, not a heartbeat

And that’s when I realized
I wasn’t in a valley of dry bones –
I was the valley of dry bones!

Shrunk and sunken in my own stupid ways
I have dried up and lost the life
Of which I once thrived

And the voice – oh the voice!
The voice of my Breather, the voice of my Maker
The very voice of my Love and Groom

“Return” he calls out from above
And I felt every part of me come together
Like puzzle pieces finally finding their place

“Great things are in store,” he says
“Great things and you – are the center of it.”

I felt strength return to the tips of my fingers
I felt the air expand my lungs within
A beat – two beats! And my heart is pumping again


My name is Israel –
Watch me as the Sovereign Lord
Awakens me again.

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