When I fall down

 I wrote this way long ago when I was a sophmore at chamberlain highschool. It was read on stage for our annual Poetry contest. I was nervous and must say it was perhaps the most bible thumper peice I have ever done. But in truth it was greatly inspired by God. And at my most hardest time I had realized the truth about Jesus...

"When I Fall Down"


When I fall I lost it all

Pain that I'm feeling

Pain that I'm put into shame



When I fall I hit the floor

Face to the pavement

Face the facts that I've lost



Feeling so helpless

Feeling so tired

Feeling so left out

That no one is going to help me up



Giving in slowly

Falling in faster

Such a disaster has slowly took my life



No one besides me

Everyone gone

Dying so slowly how could this happen


Who could of knew I would be laid out to waste

If only they knew, in this lost and lonely place

Where I had laid my face to weep



No one dares pick me up

But walked away


From me which burdens laid me down

But left astray

No one cares of leaving me this way

No one cares, who cares, who will, what face





Puddles of tears I've wept

People I cared had left

No one around me

I will never be found here

Lost in anxiety weeping and crying that I have fallen



I never noticed at that time and place

There was a hand with a hole in its palm

Reaching over me wanting me to grab hold

Then I heard a gentle voice say

"Arise I've heard your cries"



In such a surprise

Jesus Stood next to me before my eyes

Placing his nailed scar hand for me to grab

I then wept with joy and teared filled eyes

He was always by my side

Then he told me "I will niether leave you, nor forsake you"



And there was a time that he had faced the pain

When he was in Calvary

He had carried a cross

A cross of the burdens and sins of mankind

In which he suffered to release us from pain

I stood there with teared filled eyes

When I fall He always picks me up



Jesus my Savior

Jesus my creator

Never had left me

And never forsake me



Suffered our burdens

Sufered our pain times

Never had left

Stood over besides me and wept with me in pain times



He knows our needs

He knows our darkest paths



I will never be lonely

Never again to say it

Christ will be there when I fall



Never be lonely again

Never be burdened again

He never forgot me and never turned away from me



Always besides me with a hole in His palm

Reaching over for me to grab



My Redeemer, My Savior, My Lord, My Christ



Promises I will send to you

Promises of your Holiness

I will always worship you

I will never turn away from you

I will never walk away from you

Always in my mind



You are all that matter, My master, my greatest life



I will always love you, always praise you

You can turn the worst day

Into the greatest day



I love you Lord



And if I must I would die for your name

Just so I can my persecuters, how much I love you

And show them how far Christian love really goes



Lord when I'm in my darkest days

When they turn away, feeling so tired, feeling so disgraceful

When I hit the floor, Lord

I will weep my cry and weep my eyes out

But not because of them, Lord

But because of you

At the end of it all it will be you and me

Always besides me, Never forgotten me

My Redeemer, My savior

The hand that will always pick me up

When I fall down He will always pick me up

by Marco Antonio Oviedo
written October of 2006