Tag: Christians

‘Hands to Hold’

Is race going to continue to rule your life?

A sample from Book 10

 Hands to Hold
  
 you come at me
 you're not discrete
bold...unsure
  
 maybe there's a gun in my hand
 maybe I've some contraband
  
 or maybe I just like hands in pocket
 or wearing my earphones in my car
 so I can answer this here phone
 for this car absent of bluetooth–
 protecting me and you
  
 or maybe you're angry– 
having a bad day
 I pass your way
 through your veins runs hate
 so I become your play
  
 I'm just like you‒
 generation after generation
 passed through
without obligations
 to changing the view
  
 –it all seems like voodoo
 we both– 
not really having a clue
 ‒taking it upon ourselves
 get off that dusty shelf
change the view
 so our kids
won't suffer too
  
 maybe I do have a gun
 –anger raging in stun
 do you see inside of me
 my hard history
maybe my hand shakes
 though you can't see
 –you're so angry
 not seeing what's at stake
  
 maybe I did some drugs–
 stopping the pain
 keeping from going insane
 but soothing I didn't gain
 all looks like a game
 emotions adding to more pain
  
 then you come along
 thinking I'm a thug
 you want to cut me down‒
 stump me like a bug
 without knowing the deal at home
 why I'm here– 
a gun...all alone
  
 maybe don't yell
 talk...love– 
let it swell
  
 instead of jail– 
lead my soul to help
 without making me
hate myself
  
 I, too, want peace
 between you and me
  
 maybe instead of arrogance‒
 show understanding
compassion
  
 I don't want a free ride
 just a reason...inside
not to cry
  
 I am tough
I've got muscles, tats
 my life has been rough
 –crazy and all that
 it doesn't mean
I'm just stuff
to pluck
  
 a handshake
a hug
  
 –that just might be
enough
  
 I'm a human being
 I don't mean to sting
  
 just a little bitter
 please, your anger–
 could you reconsider
  
 look at me for me
God's† child
 making my way...like you
 through the miles
  
 –the past is gone
this is now
 together– 
we can make it all
worth while
 if we just remain calm–
 approach each other
in mild
 without death coming in foul
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‘Colorless Birds’

We’re all various shades of brown!

A sample from Book 10

 Colorless Birds
  
 a failed adhesion
 ‒mixed hypercritical damnation
 of all the hysteria‒
 the misunderstood mystery
hundreds of years
 still shed tears
still darkened fears
  
 what was fought
so hard for
 it doesn't seem
we came too far
 even living
under the same stars
 color‒ 
keeps bringing us back
 ‒justice lacked
white...black
 heresy in a broken-down shack
  
 tackle the government
 ‒greed's endowment
 keeping
that stupid war's enlightenment
 taking it's very commitment
back to days of judgment
  
 where are the colorless birds
 ‒haven't you heard
that war ended
 in a blood-soaked swirl
 leaving this mixed-race girl
in a confused swirl
  
 ‒still an uneven world
lost in racial twirls
  
 we're still paying tokens
 ‒what was broken
 thought to be fixed
 ‒all should be mixed
 still backwards
the clock tics
  
 years and years
suffered pain
 what did we gain
 ‒it's just insane
 still playing
this black-white game
  
 didn't king die
for a simple dream
  
 to live in a time
where there is no color
  
 just people
where each other 
 given no time to smother
no matter skin color
 you're still my sister, my brother
  
 honoring a man's life
 doesn't give war the right
 to bury the dream
 ‒words he openly screamed
 leave hatred...difference behind
 to each other
be kind
  
 it's just time
stop banking on race
 look into each other's face
 see beauty's lace
   of God's† amazing grace
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‘Troubled Soul’

Other people’s issues are not yours!

A sample from Book 9

  Troubled Soul
  
 your mixed personality
 doesn't blend with reality
  
 your verbal kindness
 doesn't add to
your stalking rudeness
  
 returning to reality
 ‒stripping all vulnerability
 takes...taking responsibility‒
 actions of self
before experiencing life...truly
  
 changing personalities
 doesn't insure securities
 needed‒ 
to strengthen possibilities
  
 living in denial
mile after mile‒
 brings the mind
to crash
heading south‒
 once there
 ‒getting there
 you can only ask...how
  
 take a look inside
your round and round ride
 ‒a mind in hide
never subsides
 'til you stop for a while
 sink in like a child‒ 
all your wounds...untie
  
 open that book
given by God†
 look deep...deep into your I
 write down your whys
all that pain
 bringing you to hide‒ 
all those cries
  
 all those ancient words‒
 so many have heard
 let them be your guide
it takes time
  
 people won't untie‒ 
all those knots inside
 ‒admittance...of self
 the help of only God†‒ 
your only needed drive
 way...way deep inside
 ‒then He'll† show you
how to fly
 without you‒ 
   having to ask why
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‘Salvation’s Need’

To Deny Others Is To Deny God!

 Salvation's Need
  
 test after test
I have failed
 my 360
to the cross...nailed
 You† brought people to me
 in their time of weak
 ‒salvation
I failed to help them seek
  
 instead, I buried them deep
 words from my mouth
did seep
 actions
I didn't allow to creep
 in self
I curled up in weep
  
 my time has come and sailed
 out of all of it
I tend to bail
 turning my back
not wanting to see
 how another's picture
on them...creeps
 I just give up and flee
  
 whatever awakens
this ignorance of me
 strip it
take it from me
 strengthen me
help me to see
 keep me from feeling sorry
lost in self pity
  
 Lord†, this part of me
 that lived unselfishly
 I lost
please return it to me
 without this lumpy throat
from way down deep
 without fears and anxiety
 help me open my mouth
speak
 in words of calm
humility, peace
without selfish
insecurities
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‘Twelve Days’

Do You Know the Truth About the 12 Days of Christmas?

A sample from Book 2

 Twelve Days†
  
 an english raid
catholics to fade
 queen elizabeth invade
  
 hidden christmas stage
counted twelve days
  
 jesuit priests...for God† be brave
 shh...can't right out say
 our true God's† way
  
 a secret betray
christmas melody wave
 God's† life engrave

 the children...learn His† way
  
 my true love
almighty God† to pave

 a partridge
in flesh He† gave

 a pear tree
a cross's blade
 an apple tree—
adam and eve to fade
 tree of knowledge—
good and evil spade
  
 two turtle doves
old, new
testaments made
  
 three french hens
hope, charity, faith
 blessed trinity colonnade
 gifts of the magi—

gold, frankincense, myrrh
 under the night's cape
  
 four calling birds
four gospels
 
 mark, luke
john, matthew

their humble hurry
  
 four major prophets

 isaiah, jeremiah
ezekiel, daniel 
 
 passing on our yesterday
  
 five golden rings
 five books of the old testament
 
 genesis, exodus
leviticus, numbers
deuteronomy

 our true maid
  
 God's† eternal stay
 nature, loving, faithfulness
 six geese a-laying
 creation of earth
in just six days
  
 seven swans a-swimming
 seven gifts of the holy spirit
  
 wisdom, understanding
 counsel (right judgment)
fortitude (courage)
 knowledge
piety (reverence)
 fear of the lord (awe of God†)

for us to praise
  
 our seven sacraments
 baptism
confession (sacrament of healing)
 communion, confirmation
marriage, holy orders
 death

a living portray
  
 our seven corporals
spiritual works of mercy  

 feed the hungry
give drink to the thirsty
 clothe the naked
shelter the homeless
 visit the sick
visit those in prison
bury the dead
  
 seven deadly sins 
 
 pride, covetousness, envy
 gluttony, anger, sloth, lust  

 we must stay away
  
 the seventh day
really is saturday
  
 eight maids a-milking
the eight beatitudes
  
 blessed are the poor in spirit—
 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
 blessed are they that mourn—
for they shall be comforted
 blessed are the meek—
for they shall inherit the earth
 blessed are they which do hunger and thirst 
 after righteousness—
for they shall be filled
 blessed are the merciful—
for they shall obtain mercy
 blessed are the pure in heart—
for they shall see God†
 blessed are the peacemakers—
 for they shall be called the children of God†
 blessed are they which are
persecuted for righteousness' sake—
 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
 blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, 
 and persecute you, and 
 shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My† sake
  
 nine ladies dancing
the nine choirs of angels
  
 seraphim, cherubim, thrones
dominions, virtues, powers
 principalities, archangels, angels
  
 ten lords a-leaping
the ten commands to obey 

 thou shalt have no other gods before Me†
 thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image
 thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God† in vain 
 remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy
 honor thy father and thy mother
 thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery
 thou shalt not steal
 thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor
 thou shalt not covet
  
 eleven pipers piping
eleven faithful apostles  

 simon peter
james (son of zebedee)
 john (son of zebedee)
andrew, phillip
 bartholomew
matthew (levi), thomas
 james (son of alphaeus)
 judas (thaddues/lebbaues, son of james)
simon (zealot)
  
 twelve drummers drumming
original apostles
  
 simon peter
james (son of zebedee)
 john (son of zebedee)
andrew, phillip
bartholomew
 matthew (levi), thomas
james (son of alphaeus)
 judas (thaddues/lebbaues, son of james)
 simon (zealot), judas iscariot
  
 twelve minor prophets of the old testament 

 hosea, joel, amos
obadiah, jonah, micah
 nahum, habakkuk, zephaniah
 haggai, zechariah, malachi
  
 twelve tribes of israel  
 asher, benjamin, dan, gad, issachar, joseph
 judah, levi, naphtali
 reuben, simeon, zebulun
  
 twelve fruits of the holy spirit  

 charity, joy, peace
patience, benignity, goodness
 long-suffering (patient suffering 
 over an extended
period mildness), faith, modesty
 contingency, chastity
  
 so they say
of the twelve days
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