{"id":7398,"date":"2026-03-25T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2026-03-25T12:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:39:07","slug":"the-vision-a-poem-by-bill-kochman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/the-vision-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/","title":{"rendered":"THE VISION — a poem and song by BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

#Poetry #Poem<\/p>\n

THE VISION<\/p>\n

by Bill Kochman<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n

07-25-2012<\/p>\n

For this world, I care not,
\nAll it offers, is but rot.
\nDust in hand, and underfoot,
\nTemporal ashes, smokey soot.<\/p>\n

Don’t be fooled, by its game,
\nThink instead, on Jesus’ name.
\nSeek above, and not below,
\nRead His Word, faith will grow.<\/p>\n

Look beyond, Satan’s fare,
\nLift your eyes, to the air.
\nBe steadfast, hold on tight,
\nFast approaches, coming night.<\/p>\n

Don’t despair, we will win,
\nSimply keep, your eyes on Him.<\/p>\n

NOTE: As best as I can recall, this is the very first poem I wrote when I began the poetry facet of the Bill’s Bible Basics ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#Poetry #Poem THE VISION by Bill Kochman https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry 07-25-2012 For this world, I care not, All it offers, is but rot. Dust in hand, and underfoot, Temporal ashes, smokey soot. Don’t be fooled, by its game, Think instead, on Jesus’ … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,3],"tags":[20,21,22,1698,139,135,134,30,2012,969],"class_list":["post-7398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-poetry","tag-bill-kochman","tag-bills-bible-basics","tag-christian","tag-keep-the-vision","tag-original","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-stay-focused","tag-vision"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40361,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7398\/revisions\/40361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}