You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain. ~ John 15:16
Showers of tears,
the fruit of the vine
touched by a raging sun;
yet, still she reaches out,
season after season,
ever onward and upward.
the fruit of the vine
touched by a raging sun;
yet, still she reaches out,
season after season,
ever onward and upward.
Despite such daily assault,
no bright flames
shall singe nor harm her;
and her fruit shall nourish
the nations with the sweetness
of a love like no other.
no bright flames
shall singe nor harm her;
and her fruit shall nourish
the nations with the sweetness
of a love like no other.
© 2011 by Elisabeth T. Eliassen
This poem has been set to music by Carson P. Cooman,
in his cycle of songs for solo voice entitled Brief Vibrations, Op. 870
in his cycle of songs for solo voice entitled Brief Vibrations, Op. 870
