Believe
Believe and trust in your forever—
drinking in strength and power of the supernatural.
Without it, you thirst for moments
that are not meant to be,
while the shadow of death saturates your life,
threatening to overcome and shatter your dreams.
Stealing the gift of your presence you give to others
in the physical, he swoops in and aims to destroy,
but you must resist and defeat him in the spiritual.
Trust, he’ll flee—
Lift your eyes and search the distance—
your future spreads over time into eternity.
Can you see? Your life impacts many,
your words seeping into the cracks of our foundation
to heal, to soothe, to understand.
Recite, "I am a child of God and therefore I do not inherit sickness,"
and imagine vibrant life flowing through your heart,
your mind, body, and hands.
Don’t think of what is, but of what’s to be.
Believe and not only pretend—
Today is better than yesterday,
and tomorrow will reveal your next steps to yield.
The direction in which to fly, soaring high,
to reach your island of peace and find your rest
here, for now,
or in your forever existence of the next realm,
a dimension unseen to us but real.
Yet in whatever path you desire,
remember, you are eternal,
and you are loved—
The Author
E. Izabelle Cassandra Alexander was born and raised in a little village in Hungary and now resides in Des Plaines, Illinois. She’s a single mother, nature and animal lover. She writes short stories, creative nonfiction essays, flash fiction, plays, and poetry, currently working on a few novels and a series of children's books along with illustrations.
Her work has been published in Spark, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2020, in the Illinois State Poetry Society’s (ISPS) Anthology, Distilled Lives, Volume 4, 2018, and on the ISPS website, 2017-2019, in Yearning to be Free by The Moonstone Art Center, 2019, by The Scarlet Leaf in 2018 & 2020, by WOW! Women on Writing, 2019 & 2020, by The Book Smuggler's Den, 2019, Tint Journal, 2020, Unlimited Literature, 2020, Ariel's Dream, 2020, Pages & Spine, 2020, Beautiful Words by Ariel Publishing, 2020, and more.
She won several Honorable Mentions and Runner Up status with her flash fiction and creative nonfiction essays entered into contests. An interview was published by WOW in The Muffin (an online blog: https://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/) on January 14th, 2020.
You can find some of her work on her website at izabelle2012.wixsite.com/izabelle and on Patreon at www.patreon.com/IzabelleAlexander and connect with her by visiting her page at fb.me/E.IzabelleAlexander on Facebook.
E. Izabelle Cassandra Alexander