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The chasm between brothers breathes in their sigh, It craves all well-meaning hearts salted with pride. Be quick to build a bridge for its edges are fragile, And the collapse is keener for the humble and agile. Woe! They've fallen in! Still biting as they plummet! Their surface stripped away as...

The grass is crisp, it won’t drink up rain, The earth is scorched and shields to grain, Bathing in the sun’s glory they waste to a fray, So water rolls off and the seed bounces away. How much of the Word is ignored by believers! Through twisted theology, lies and deceivers. How faith is...

In a marathon of laps for a fool’s-gold medal, Blood hot and heart cold in the chest of a rebel. Perspective eclipsed by passion and principle, Losing control and wisdom, feeling invincible. Shame on the angry man who feels no shame! Blame's upon him even if he's free of all blame, For his...

Bridle the stallion and shoe all his kicks, Saddle him and clutch as he wildly flips. Dig in your heels and for the river march, Once there be still 'til he's finally parched. No beast becomes tame if we hide from it, So to choose to forgive and then fight for it. The battle will be hard...

The lot of the cowards will fall to the gullible, The hive-minded who class query insufferable. Drowning their fear in a lake named Conspiracy, And justify the act in a regurgitated soliloquy. Ignorance perfected and the mockery's ironic, Intelligence defective and defense histrionic. But...

Even though I have a great sense of direction, It won't help me when I reach an intersection. Recalling the way and having a good compass, Won't save me from pitfalls, traps and hunters. The labyrinth eats pride and spits out humility, Grinds down every confident plan and ability. Each turn...

Torn apart with teeth or divided in love, Stab with a finger or handshake in a glove. Can ten of us agree on at least one topic? 21st century Christianity's kaleidoscopic. We're all part of some sect, know it or not, Unity's become a promise our ego's forgot. The inner child's jaded, the outer...

He paces for days around his cell impatiently. “I have so much to do! So many places to be!” He pines for weeks at the sound of rolling waves. “I’m wasting time whilst there’s so many to save” He prays for months, passionately and contrite. “Who am I to help here? To whom should I write?”...

Prayers for the Temple, Torah mystics, Discounted lambs, Fasts masochistic, Truth polluted, worship selfish and proud, So the people of Yah moved underground. Prayers for buildings, theological misfits, Sunday small-talk, weak tea and biscuits. Truth diluted, worship casual and unsound, So...

Again, I'm so sorry, I won't do it again, I messed up again, the same way again. I repent again so please forgive me again. Forget my sins again, once more, again. If the sin is scarlet, the again is burgundy, Crushed from all the agains that burden me. But agains will again, and again I'm...

My family has disowned me and I’ve lost my wife, People mock and hit me and daily threaten my life. I’ve lost my home, my name, dignity and raiment, And called a liar and profane as an ironic payment. But He feeds me with wondrous words to guide us, Tells me to speak up and write down on...

What becomes of the introvert who lives in paradise? For I’m surely the most socially awkward of all acolytes. If they have no friends, do they live right on the perimeter? If they can’t do ‘normal’ is there something extracurricular? And though the feasts’ sound nice and are surely...

Stones crumble like ash, banners loose like smoke, The black rain assails upon the hearth that's broke. Dregs of yester wine, candles fighting for breath, Shields brittle, swords blunt, horses twisted by death. Our heroes fall or defect, the bards try to elevate, As the night watch reports...

How grave the error found in the half-hearted, Casually strolling in the race they’ve just started. Faith bound smartly within the walls of a tick box, Intermittent prayers used like heavenly picklocks. Woe to the lukewarm snoozing their alarm call, Your moat has dried up under the day's...

The abacus of life: weekends and paydays, Chasing our lives by sprinting the week dazed. We scan our payslips with an acute aperture, Yet walk right past an old unflipped calendar. Watchful with money but spending time liberally, Only counting its worth when we want a delivery. Wasting days...

"God gave us the Law He knew we couldn't obey, Then manifested as His Son to lead us a new way. Now the Law's in our hearts as we walk by the Spirit, Who says the Law's in the past, we needn't go near it. Because grace covers up, thanks to our Lord Jesus, Who is a single God formed of three...

They see me as a garbled picture, a riddle in a riddle, Or create an interpretation which is void of the middle. No one understands me, no one has ever seen, But I take solace in the fact that you do Elohim. The auditorium's empty, my heart gives up the drum, Every measure I pour out is avoided...

Muzzled like dogs, it filters both ways, Shown who to hate, told who to praise. Walls of marionettes for the Rapine O'Cells, Every relationship tried hard on the scales. Seasons lost to cognitive dissonance, Bounties on truth, parties for ignorance. Blackmailed wings for badges of vanity...

The womb of the earth awaits those who sleep, Pulling us into recesses of our deserved keep. Enveloped by darkness or tormented with shame, Or resting in great peace with those of good name. But once there we can’t leave in any direction, As chasms and angels serve as the protection. And there...

She saunters on stage with lighters raised for her, A soft encore following a loud performer. With a gown for each night worn in the same order, Taking time from us as we gain it back from her. She’s like a lighthouse slowly spinning a message, Building her glow until it becomes vestige. A queen...