THE
TALE OF THE KING’S SON
‘Tis a tale of
intrigue to you that I tell,
Of a kingdom of
subjects that, in darkness, fell.
In cadence and rhythm
I tell it to you,
In hopes that the
truth will come into view.
It starts with a
Father, a Spirit, a Son;
Who cannot be
compared to anyone.
Their power so great,
their heart so grand,
No philosopher or
poet could understand.
This family of might
from eternity’s glare,
Created a Kingdom
that was just and fair.
Gave life to new guardians
and a love that was true.
Gave riches and
talent and a room with a view.
To each of the guardians
they gave power and might,
But to one special
one they gave Holy Light
“Light-Bearer” they
called him, a prince over all,
An agent of freedom….who
then chose to fall!
He secretly gathered to
himself others who,
Like him wanted more
than the riches they knew.
He would invade the
palace and throw out the King,
Take the throne for
himself, wear the royal Ring.
So with his army of
darkness he waged a great war
Against the palace
guard to the castle door,
But the Truth was standing
there in spite of His pride
For the King was
there waiting, with His sword of light
As the dark prince had
entered from out of the night
“Your freedom you
have squandered on a coup that has failed!”
“Your days here are
numbered, My might has prevailed!”
With swords clashing
and raging they fought for a while
The King good and
strong, the prince evil and vile
In a moment the
prince found his sword had been shattered
His skill had been
beaten, his great wings were tattered.
The King with his
power so mighty and grand
Threw the prince and
his army off the good land
Into a desert with darkness
as sky
With clouds of
ambition, his malevolent pride
Eternity passed and
the King’s mighty voice
He created a world
new creatures of choice
A people alive with a
freedom to be
His friends, sons and
daughters in a new family
These people were
rulers of the King’s new land
With character and
skills and the title of “man”
With freedom and
power and life without end
And best of all to be
His Partners and Friends
For a time this went
on, not a problem in sight
Then a darkness crept
into this new world of Light
The dark prince is
who came and who entered the land
His plans to subvert
this new world of “man”
To conquer with
stealth and to steal away
All the goodness and
freedom that existed in day
To seduce and to rob
all the joy and the light
And to drench this new
world in the power of Night!
So he came to the people
with lies and a frown
He told them that the
King had been keeping them down
That they could be
much more than his friends and his clan
That they could be
King with their wealth in that land
So they fell into
darkness, deceived by his claims
And the dark prince,
he duped them into his chains
The Good King and His
Son were watching and wept
The good land they
created had been by evil wrecked
Without reason and
heart the dark prince now ruled
His slaves he had
made them, his evil their food.
The sun was blocked
out by his evil and rank
The clear sky now all
blotted, air polluted and rank
His set up his
kingdom with ill purpose and blithe
Castles built on
deception with pillars of lies
His slaves automatic
to fear and despair
His grip steel in
strength under his fiery glare.
A Land separated by
evil, an Island of fear
With no bridge to the
Kingdom they once held so dear
No way off the Island of evil so great
No bridge to the
mainland of mercy and grace
Then something began
he did not notice then
For a light now crept
in to his kingdom of sin
A light small, yet
not weak…like a candle of light
Across the borders of
darkness it snuck into the night
He flew over the
expanse of the evil’s divide
Set aside all his riches,
set aside all his pride
‘Twas the Son of the
King all wrapped in a robe
That was cloaking his
glory and power untold
He would subvert the
evil by truth and by grace
He would bring hope
to each one of the dark prince’s slaves
Unhurried yet growing
like the seed of a tree
His truth planted in
hearts that now yearned to be free
Not the mighty and
rich did He call to his side
But the sick and the
poor and the slaves who had cried
For a freedom they
lost, for a Word that was true
For a hope that would
outlast the life that they knew
One by one he broke
chains that were holding them down
Mind by mind came the
freedom, came a smile to a frown
With a still, small,
strong voice the truth now understood
They had faith in the
Son of the King that was Good
Soon his army of once-slaves
were free and well fed
To the borders of
darkness with them He now sped
Where ahead lied the
land of the Good and the True
When appeared the
dark prince with his sword and his fury
Recognizing the Son
now in all of His glory
“You think you can
free them from my invincible grip
You know none can
cross this infinite rift!”
“Any who try it will die at my hand, for that is price of
leaving this land!”
“Then take me!”
roared the Son like a Lion of dread
I am willing to die
for them…take me instead!”
The Son stood there,
slaves watching, as he dropped down his hands
And the Dark Prince
thrust his sword deep into The Man
There He fell on the
borders of evil and ruin
The dark prince’s
death blow piercing the light of the moon
He turned on the
slaves that were so close to freedom
And barked orders for
demons to come and to seize them
But just as demons
began to swarm
The sky thundered and
quaked as if starting a storm
The ground shook and
light cracked through a rift in the sky
The crowd turned and
looked at the place the Son died
He was there but not
lying, a corpse in the sand,
But was standing
alive, sword of light in his hand
He stood there mighty
and alive from the dead
The dark prince stood
there gaping and scratching his head
Then a bridge of
light appeared on the borders of doom
It stretched to the mainland
where the clouds did not loom
It crossed sea and
crossed sky to enable the slaves
To cross safely over
from the night to the day
The Son lunged at the
Dark Prince, his sword of light flashed
The prince mortally
wounded, his minions dashed
The prince fled back
to his darkness, a long death to die
To bring down all
those left in his kingdom of lies
Then the Son turned
his gaze on the ones He set free
They bowed to the
ground and they knelt at His feet
“I’ve shown you the
way to the Kingdom
of Light
I’ve filled all your
hearts with unstoppable Life!
Now go and tell
others the Truth that you know
The bridge-way to
freedom to others now show
Go take them with you
to the ones in the night
I will be there with
You as you shine the light!
So they ran and they
flew to the ones still in chains
And they went without
fear for the One who they claim
Is creating among us
a Kingdom of power
For the ones who
believe Him in this very hour!
Tale
of
The
King
By Bob Evans
Dedicated
to My father, Randy Evans
A
Poet who uses his words and his heart
to
touch peoples lives forever
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