Showing posts with label Forgiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forgiveness. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2012

A Consortium of Grecian Time





Soldier, poet, dramatist
Father of tragedy
You
Changed the
Way we smile.

Mathematical in its
Elements.
Deductions and axiomatic
Postulating. A
Geometry known not prior to
That parallel
Point,
But one
Line may
Pass
Through

Biblical in breadth
A diaspora’s been met
Sowing seeds
Distant far

As close as man
may be
To apotheosis
We’ve yet to see

Classic beauty
Sunbelt crush
Serenity of a
Steadied poise
Lost to
the
Collapsing praise
 Time knows not
What values one puts upon the individual ray, forgetting
About the center’s bubbling blaze—

Throughout history
Man has pushed forgiveness
To its gravest ends
Testing what
Could be rationally
 Abused before
Hollowed ends
Accrue

Humanity is a contrast economy
We strive to breathe descending views
what it means to understand
the opposing schools
Recklessly
We’ve pandered
For centuries long
Creating pacts and promises
Have been
Predicated upon deceitful hues
That wither, wither, fray

We have
Our communion
And yet, we have our
Betrayals, and they are
 felt ever the more
inherent, when composed unto the flesh, and
     unrestrained when composure only lives
yet, we lived,
              albeit in frenzy’s first breath taken,
amongst the soul,
 of the undisciplined, molting clear those spectrums
oft abused

By timelines, we learn to merge into one, into
The Blur that forges a definition, into
That which has yet begun…

from the sun, to the sea and the sky to the tide
No matter the context, in spite of the ride, the lengths and shackles yet unfettered about malnutrition’s feet, deposed by all the deposits of those underachievement’s we’ve ever learned to make… and yet we’ve always understood how to take aim, and that has to count for something, right?

Mankind has ever found itself as the child of a God, how does one live up to that shadow?

So, just to cast their own beacon of distinction, we often abuse the grace of our father, we often stray from the generous path plotted fresh for our soles alone, and instead of living in luxury’s shadow, we chose to bathe in the cold showers of absence, where we so eagerly became
The makers of rain, irrational beasts
Amidst the moistened shade

And yet…
We meditate
Upon mentally
Equipping ourselves
To deal with what comes our way

To follow nature
As does the stem
To its thorn, is
To disseminate
Good and bad
From the indifferences
In-between the dark and the gray

Run, ragged tryin’
     To catch grace upon wings once craved
But these were not intended for

Man. Bull. Lion
     Egg. Coiled—
Cracking, splits
Ticking, cloaks we mask
Through beards untamed.
until
Hands cease  from cross
Again

Falling
Deep
Into
A rece
Ssion we
Simply can
Not return
To the grammar that’s been
Given to us upon
Our births…and we run
         Away, frightened by the photo albums taken from our father’s early days, brimstone, we’ve seen it in his eyes, we’ve smelt it upon his breath, touched it on his hands

Yet, because of our irrational fear
We forget
Warmth is not reserved for hell alone
And
No matter
What we’ve done
Our father
Will
Always
Accept us back

Warmly, in his arms,
The truth can never be rescinded
Not by man or any other beasts we may encounter for advice
Yet, Just that alone, makes one wonders
Why do we seek advice from outside sources
When the wealth of the world exists within our father





Friday, April 27, 2012

Wandering With Another's Wardrobe


Stigmata scented
and poised to see
God’s forgiveness

Tired of what’s become
he hoped to change
these “fortunes”

He’s seen so much
yet knows so little
of meaning

Nature, nurture
to him a choice not provided
until this day

He kneeled before the altar
as he’d never done before—
         he realized he had no business to be

Clasping hands, similar
to how others had done many times
before the quenching song was sung

He had a speech all planned out
and like a lawyer he defensed his soul
with all the many reasons beyond his own control

He claimed he’d changed,
how different he’d become
and that’s when God appeared

Unfeeling and cold, he stayed knees to floor
knowing this all should resonate much, much more
but he also understood, if God returned, soon it all would

In an ancient and blessed tone,
psalms from Heaven filled the room
but muster a nod was all our hero could

As disrespecting as perhaps this might look
never once did God forsake his grace,
for he saw the tears stream down this man’s face

But before those drops could hit the ground
the sky opened to a basking love sent down,
and buried deep, the stolen soul is found

Eviscerated now, is the curse
         for even those so entrenched in sin
                  God can see the worth within

And the vampire may have lost his thirst
         but in so doing, he now had
 the chance to seek eternal life
        
        
This week for Poetics, the crew at D'Verse has asked each of us to create a poem that uses the vampire, either literally or figuratively, as the central figure/theme.  I just happened to post this piece yesterday and have decided to link it up with the other vampiric poems.  Head on over, enjoy what's been linked up, and while you're at it, perhaps you'll see the light and burst in a creative explosion of your own.  If you do, please share.  Cheers

In the recording I made some changes, mainly changing the narrator.

Proud to perform at Wednesday Open Mic with JohnnyK over at the River.  

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Could You?


Aphasia breeds me next I fear
Already pleurisy infects the lung
And soon will scour for the other
Leaving me a remnant, my dear

Would you love me even then?
Would you love me as much when?

All of me
All of these things
Untrue, confounded
You know me
You know what’s below
The exterior
And that which melts beneath

But I ask the question still,
         Even as the answer stands so clear,
Could you?
         I knew you would. You always have.

Merry Christmas to everyone.

Friday, December 23, 2011

Rinse & Cleanse


On the scuffle of soles
Marring the aftershock
Tears blend in two
Splitting like the center does

A wrap of thunder clasps the temple’s door
A shroud of wonder befalls the crutch adorned
Flip the switch
Flip the switch
And let the heaven’s dry (let the heaven’s weep tonight)

They say
That crying is cathartic
That you should get it out (get it out)

Guess you have to hit the bottom
Before you even attempt to climb away
Guess you have to all but die
Before you can learn to crawl again

Perhaps, perhaps it’s then true
That when the water begins
It’s at this point when, the healing mends
The holes in you, (making you whole again)

Maybe, just maybe then
There’s something to be said
For the sad songs and elegies
And the way their sorrow
Makes you forget your own (comforts your soul)

Rake it away
Take it away
         Let the wash rinse and cleanse
         Allow the grief to go
         Let the teardrops flow
         Until healing distends
         

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Sidearm Jesus


I’ll be fine,
Don’t shed a tear,
I’ve seen worse,
I’ve bled lines,
Be not afraid, for I do not fear,
This is a penance, not a curse

With Jesus as my sidearm
I’m quickest to the draw
With Jesus as my sidearm
Fear’s replaced by awe

Memories of days gone by,
Confused and serrated,
Mingling inches from the grave,
In venom, antithesis and lies,
What sins this tongue has played,
And still, God chose my soul to save

With Jesus as my sidearm
No valley’s too dark to see
With Jesus as my sidearm
Light replaces treachery

Alone I’ve felt, for so long
Heart softly beat as the shadows whispers formed,
Meandering every which direction, looking for a sign,
I had to first hit bottom, before I could grow strong,
All around me, serpents slithered & creatures swarmed,
Broken & forlorn, when came the golden rays from high

With Jesus as my sidearm,
I now live without doubt,
With Jesus as my sidearm,
I’ve learned there’s always another route,

With Jesus as my sidearm,
I’ve learned to love again,
With Jesus as my sidearm,
Life anew begins