"Abish" Poem

Abish

By Donnell Hunter

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This must be the day …

The Lord has reasons, my father said,

why we see signs

no other Lamanite knows;

if we hold fast believing

someday he’ll show us why.

He clung to his hope

faithful to death:

Abish, the sign must not have been for me

but you.

Remember what I saw.

Be true.

Some day someone will need

to show the way.

Be there believing

and when that day comes,

you’ll know.

  From Alma 19:16

(see Abish, Ensign Aug 1977 )