DYING TO LIVE

It feels like its late in coming
I turn right, thinking I’ve caught you by my eye’s side
I find light, sinking through from cracks, ruins
I find no one else but myself, standing in dust
In desert inspiration, covered by all and none
Confused with all the pictures of a single life
Many, varied, pretty, false
In fatalistic turn I forget about hope and seek solace in despair
Then in the wanton blur of drunken sarcasm and narcissism
I am right, and its so against the world
But still, I feel voided; I feel void

The space of grass blades, the land and sky clashing
The dutiful war upon soil of marching rain
The awed explosions of ecstatic love for beautiful red sunsets
In moments all the more rare, they make me want to live
To be free from solitary cage
From miserable island miserly and unsmiling
From dead ends and frantic searches for escape routes
Here, dying is living, but where is the right and wrong juxtaposition?
I wish, dearly crave for life
For the smiles and laughter and hugs and kisses
For the shared tears and seared comforters
For the orchards and flower fields scenting up to our atmosphere
For a world as I have barely ever had it
The life is rising as sounds to fill thirsting ears
Starved of truth, joy, peace and contentment
After the storm of empty materialism has raged and ravaged
I am dying to live, in the midst of living traffic
Perhaps mostly dead too, yet being walking, thriving corpse
Nothing gives me the fiery fuel for finding essence here
Except the discovery of wasteland that stays following rampaging materialism
Everyman left open and dull in the end
Finished by lies of destructive promise

So I’m dying to live, fighting to die fulfilled
The world is not enough, so I give in to another instead
The Divine is my hope for meaning
God is my light, my life, my salvation
One without whom life lived is just death in procession.

SEEK YOU THE WORLD OVER

The lines and links on your faces’ journey mean something to me
The route, the paths that cut through from lashes to chin
The highs of smiles upon cheek, the joys borne by smiling through lip rims
The lows of hanging heads, of jaws let down like your battered spirit
Your life is a treasure throve, a beautiful grove, a barely explored road
Not looked up, not viewed, not let to minister, to point the way ahead
But I look at you, feeling empty and without worth
The world is the little that I could give to let you be near me
Move oceans and reconstruct landscapes to make you see
Part clouds and drive back storms to unveil the truth
Fix the spot you stand upon, make the world’s sounds seem gibberish
Let your choices be, but make them be to you, what they truly are
My perception becoming yours
Opening up your eyes

I can only love you enough to make you see what blustering calm I bring
If only your hunt for comfort be laid aside this once, thenceforth
Give me your weary heart, your tearful face, your destroyed dreams
I gave you my life
What else couldn’t I give to see you truly joyful
All your world’s pleasures could sink in seas, could be gutted by flames, could rot and rust
Your very flesh could decay six feet deep days now or decades later
But your life is worth enough to me
Enough to seek you the world over
Till I find the way to your heart, and sweep your feet to commit to me
I will raise you up and above the world’s nothingness
You’ll find that you were made to last forever
In me.

DONT FORGET THE TIMES

After dark, you’ll see the varnished feather flutter timidly
The tone of our voices will be hush and snore
The candle light will be a dancing damsel dilly-dallying in last rite
Final performance before silent passing out
Life snuffed out, forgotten, just old, just picture-in-mind
Grinding to pieces the snappy progression of infinity
Grand purpose apparently contradicted, crossed, disrupted
So our eyes see these occurrences
Old, unconnected, in disarray
In regular attitude, we conclude that we find no pattern
We find no meaning

But don’t forget the times we forayed in joyful dance
When we boldly dared the dizzying heights
When we stuttered upon broken gravel straits, not even cringing
When the weightiest of tasks seemed lightest to give away
Our post of freedom, our line of confidence
Our bastion of hope
Life is the gift, the package of togetherness which we together unwrap
The silent meditation birthing jubilant cries and repentant wails
Our voices in union, in seclusion
Don’t forget the times of sunshine, of chattering teeth and drenched backs
All the seasons and all the flowers, crumpled and blossoming and dropping
The cycle of living and dying, the wave of rise and fall
The contrasts that help us comprehend, that help us define
The world temporal, and eternity boundless
Divine writ we read with hearts wide open to life.

EVERYTHING YOU SAID

Letter to you, my dearest friend

Its about the thousandth time I’ve written you, the umpteenth time I’ve corresponded. The world hasn’t changed much from your days down here with us; that is, apart from fast food and fast cars and fast info. And pretty much everything else being a bit faster than they used to be. So they say we have to keep up with the times, just to keep on keeping on. Whatever that means. Besides that, nothing much to say about the place we’re at.

And yes, the world does have us now. Its been like a promising revolution, with many people joining in and getting in on the act, on the fun, and on the mudslinging that comes our way as well. while its true that this last part turns many off and makes them take on their heels (away from us) we’re not fearful or freaked out. You told us it’ll be so, and we know what to expect. In the end, we’ll win, and everyone will know for sure that we’ve found the ultimate truth, the only truth that there is: you.

Of course, that’s not why I’m writing to you now, my Lord. I’ve told you about these things in my previous letters. The thing is, I am amazed at how far we’ve come. How far we’ve fallen.

In the early days after you left us here, we had the memory of your voice so strong, that we thought we could hear you, feel you near, feel you breathe on our skin. The fiery passion we saw in your eyes, in your deeds, was alive in us, as though you had passed it all on to us. And you did. As you had promised. But its almost all gone now.

Our lives have become riddled with and wrecked by concerns bodily and material, mental and egotistical. Our gaze have fallen from you, as the waves of our high speed lives batter and smash into our safe spots, tossing us off and away. We still have the faint memory of your words, the admonition to “love one another”, not to be “burdened by the concerns of this life”, and to always “draw near to you”. They are no more than anthems now. So we are sick with the world’s poison of selfishness and sick with nostalgia for our original love: you, not ourselves. No wonder the world no longer takes us seriously. They think we’re hypocrites.

Lord, the replies you send lit up our hearts a bit. They come like a spark, reminiscent of the things you said to us while you were here with us. We are repentant, we are filled with joy, we feel better. But only for a while.

Help us Lord. Come to our aid. Remind us of the great gifts you gave us, everything you said, everything we’ve lost. Bring us to our knees, raise us up, and make us strong again in you. All of us send this plea. As individuals, and together.

Thanks, loving friend for your care and your strength. For your life. We’ll be together always. Because you’ve made it so.

LOVE: PERSPECTIVES, SHADES, AND THE ULTIMATE TRUTH

Maybe, its You

Your head is at a dead end

Your heart sick at a hurt bend

You’ve descended steep and fast to final loss

You’re finding your steel nerves have given, can only gloss

Look aside, apart from yourself, and find love here

Never far, always standing there

Firm and fierce and strong enough to care

More than frail hearts of men ever could dare

For, I have found that

When a man loves his bride, he would lay down his life

The irony lies in death, when love should give life

Once upon a time, a man loved me so much, he died for me to live

Since then I kept dying everyday that he may live

The death he died for my life,I’m dying for his life

But either way, we just can’t be separated

Together,we’re one, together, we’re alive!

As the world sees it

Separated words like sub-lime should taste bitter sour

Separated worlds like hot Mercury, luke-warm jupiter, or

Separated walls with thick thickness with layed bricks and great heart fitness

But forget all that; we are of a different class

Repping Christ, full assurance of a confirmed right

Taking notes as He dictates our civil rights

Piling up divine assignments like looting battle boxes, blame our phobia to fright

See I’m a bride whose bride price set worlds at war

It took a ressurection to marry me, full debt paid in totality

So when you ask the Devil who Christ is,

He looks at me and remembers cheque-mate!

Christ died for my living

Now that’s Death-Grace and I love Him!

Sometimes I wonder

How its displayed for us all to see

Yet we choose to ignore the truth, the reality

Its so simple, yet we hoplessly try to mystify it

We say we do not agree to its methodology

But everyday we step out that open door

We take on a desperate search for love

So I wonder

I wonder if we prefer the world for what it is

If the so-called rigteous kills are worth it

If a hungry soul’s plea we still feel

If we prefer to watch them die in their sins

I wonder: if love wont drive us, what will?

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QUICK QUOTEs

Let us be grateful to God for one thing- that He, whose very perception is the definition of truth, has seen us as being worth dying for. You are worth a life of infinite value, the life of His son. So, in God’s eyes, you are priceless

QUICK QUOTEs

The fact that anyone does not see the point in Jesus dying to save humans from misery and hopelessness is not evidence that the Christian message of deliverance is inadequate. Its a pointer to the fact that he’s gravely in need of being saved himself.