Tag: poetry

Stilling Away

Lord I pray,

let my heart not forget,


You placed the stars in the sky


From chaos you made order


In my mind and soul you will do the same.


Lord, quiet my soul, still my heart


In time alone with you, I find peace


As the day speeds up, and life takes place


Let me not be consumed by the world’s chaos


Help me take pauses and seek your face


My Lord, my refuge, my rest, my strength


Quiet my soul, let me not forget


To surrender it all to you.


Lord, I surrender

Truth Serum

We got the winners, losers the in between 

You don’t want me to make a scene

But I’m coming clean

I won’t be obscene 

But I’m going to tell it 

Like it is

Won’t be sugar coating 

I’m not gloating 

Wish I was floating 

But your ego is bloating

Now your head is filled 

With too much of you

Took those pills

But you still you

And I’m still me

And we still can’t seem to agree

Cause you read the truth on the screen

In a magazine 

And it was in a scene

But wait a minute

It’s got you in it

But you weren’t there

And you’re not aware

They using you 

To sell the lies

To hypnotize

You are the prize

You mesmerized 

They are playing you

And playing me too

Got us shouting 

Doubting 

Rerouting 

Our steps our plans our lives

Now we march in place

To their drum 

What a disgrace 

They think we’re dumb

Cause we took the bait

Swallowed up the hate

They served on a plate

And they manipulate

Don’t contemplate

Just inflate, deflate, relate

To the lies they feed

And the evil seeds

No fruit it yields

Just left in fields

That are deserts , dry

Wondering why

So let’s not comply

Stand up stand together

Unite

Let’s start forever

And Fight

For what’s right

Starting tonight

And that’s LOVE

Sideline

I’ve been coasting

Half awake, half asleep

Space ghosting

Thought I was okay

Cause I still believed

Life’s been quaking

Illness, disease, death

Heart breaking

But I saw the sun

Behind every cloud

If I’m not fully awake

I’m not fully alive

There are times to sleep

Times to retreat

Times to heal and hide

But that time can’t last

Forever

Gotta get back in the light

Time to step forward

Back into the sunshine

If you’re sleeping

You’re not leading

Time to get back into the fight

You’re no longer bleeding

the scars won’t fade

But that pain that made them

Will be the impetus

To take on the charge

Now let’s charge that hill

Stake that claim

Lives are at stake

This is not a game

Victory is won

But you gotta step into it

Now who you gonna bring along with you

Cause this journey is yours

But it’s not meant to walk alone

And every beat of your heart is calling you home

So wake up

Start walking

Speak up

Start talking

You have a lot of fight left

You have lot of work to do

Gotta finish this race

Gotta see it through

Fighting

People are fighting

Fighting for life

Fighting about

when it begins

who gets to decide

The fate of the unborn life

People are fighting

Fighting for their life

Fighting to breathe because of a disease

While others

Are fighting for the strength to go another day despite overwhelming despair

And others still

fight the odds and obstacles to bring new life into the world

People are fighting

Fighting to sustain life of those in their charge

Fighting with medication, ventilation

and all the tools and knowledge we can employ

Fighting….

For life

To begin

To stay

To end

To never have existed

What are we really fight for?

Who are we really fighting for?

I thought it was for you

Maybe it was for me

When is it time to fight

When is time to just be

Life

Breath

Life

Death

What are we fighting for?

Just like heaven

Images of simplicity

With all the throes removed

Winding river

Lulls you into another realm

Strangely familiar, yet unknown

Weeping and woes are but the faintest echo of ages past

Warmth, joy, dancing, light refreshing rain

Exploration, innovation

Lush landscapes and mountainous peaks offer nothing more than exhilaration

No danger, no fear, no interfering duties

Just time

Endless and eternal

Enveloped in majesty

Fueled by grace and love

Growing, learning, living fully free and alive

Alas , finally knowing

What it means to thrive

Detox

You called under the guise of concern for me

I think even you fall for your own subterfuge

And believe it’s true

But I saw through it

Because we have been here before

Only last time it wasn’t the time to call you out

And this people pleaser hates conflict

But as I learn and grow and strive to thrive

It means the very uncomfortable task

Of speaking the truth

the real challenge is to speak it in love while frustrated and depleted

So I kindly pointed out the patterned behavior

After firmly but calmly making boundaries known

And when I was inclined to ask for the bottom line

To pull back the curtain and discuss your real aim

Immediately you wanted the subject changed

This confirmed my deductive suspicion

And while I forgive your ulterior motives and brokenness that leads you there

For we are all broken souls with wounds to heal and failures to overcome

What I cannot do is sit

in the mud and mire with you

when I was resuced from my own pit

So I wish you well

And pray you find a solid ground on which to stand

For now I will love you from afar because no one can withstand sinking sand.

Friend of Sinners

I am not perfect

Nor do I pretend

To be always on point

On target

On track

Well kept

My mind and my home

Are often in disarray

But I know who I am

I know what matters most

And what matters most

Is Whose I am

Your Creator and mine

Are the same, imagine that

And though I don’t fit your mold

Nor you mine

His love for each creation is the same

Not because of some pre-purposed plan

But simply because

He is love itself

So our paths cross

Mine seems more convoluted

And perhaps yours is as straight and narrow

As you perceive and portray

At the day’s end

It source is the Maker, the Creator, the Lord ,

the friend of sinners