A Step Towards Now

I havn’t blogged in ages.  I stayed with xanga because certain people never die on xanga and it felt hard to give up something that had been connected me with so many people before.  But the more I look at it (or not look at it) the more I realize it’s time to move on.  [...]

Live, Fight and Die.

We fight for what we live for.
Are you willing to die for what you fight for?
We live for when we are willing to die for.
When we die for that is truly to fight for.
We live for.
We die for.
We fight for.
We live to fight and die for.
There is something about a good war flick
   That reminds me [...]

Power in The Name

I was raised in the church, to the tune of choirs and hymns,
Hearing countless times the names of Adam and Eve,
Abraham and Isaac, Moses and Joshua, Elijah and Samson,
David and Solomon… Jesus and His disciples.
I was raised in the church, to the sounds of spiritual talk,
Words like grace, forgiveness, sin, love, patience,
Compassion, perserverance, prayer and [...]

Amazing Grace [Revision]

Dear God, I live to experience Your amazing grace –
   The way it overwhelms my calloused heart
   And compels me to change.
I cannot live without Your amazing grace
   That saves me from myself –
   My lustful and prideful eyes staring at my own demise.
I am a fool and a sinner,
   Repeating the same mistakes that
   I’ve repented [...]

Two Worlds

There is a different time and place.
When yester-year was the moment and
   Tomorrow is the burden for the future.
Where all that the eyes can see is the world
And what lies beyond the sea is of stretched relevance.
Such a country fades with forgetfulness and neglect.
And yet reviving the colors and fragrance of this other world
Evokes the [...]

They.

Who are they?
Me, you and they.
Me and you are God’s children.
We (me and you) are His children.
And they?
   They who were created by His hands,
      Animated by His breath of life and
      Whose fate is on His heart?
   They whom are beloved and cared for by
      The same creater of the universe and Lord of [...]

A Lighthouse.

Let me construct a lighthouse in the sea –
A light that will pierce through the dense fog and
Pouring rain of blinding fears and hypnotic hopes
That will rock my boat so often and blow hollow threats
In rising tides and impossible squalls.
In the crashing waves and deafening thunder
Are the voices of worldly comfort in the arms of
A [...]

The Manifesto

I lay ink onto paper like a chisel etches words into bedrock.
Your eyes do not deceive
   When smeared on paper the color’s like blood.
My words bleed through the page
   A dark crimson red that is black when thick.
The pen is my brush an on oversize canvas.
My canvas is cement sidewalks.
My canvas is masonry walls.
My canvas [...]

Psalm 125:1

MOUNT ZION CANNOT BE MOVED
HE WHO IS, HAS BEEN AND WILL BE ON THE THRONE
   IS NOT MOVED
AT JAHWEH’S SIDE I CANNOT BE MOVED.
When my fists clenched are all that I can muster,
When the sweetness of vengeance is bland
   And leaving me mroe unsatisfied than before,
When the resolution is awaiting the loosening of my grip,
When, [...]

Conflicted

“Conflicted, I am.  I can’t stem the tide.
It’s emotional bombardment like shells falling out of the skies.
Hundred ton bombs incoming, packed with
   Exaggerated fears of abandonment and lies
   Intense nightmares of her moaning
      And crying to a devil in disguise,
   Pictures of my sacrificed heart’s blood
      Smeared on the sidewalk
   Head-splitting anger threatening in me [...]