Reverb

Reverb

Every bit the bother

Crawling out from the response

The ability to look both ways

When I am certain, I step back

Into the flux of character

The bridge disassembles time

When I first walked from the barriers

The clicking still went off in my left brain

Wondering why you are here

Methods, meanderings

Wise cracks

Made of maybes just that stuck

Sifting through transparent pages

I feel lost being brittle

Consuming the drafts that would find me broken

There follows the light and the message

Wandering through check points

How I am shaken to discern

Polite versions, disciples thinking in double verse

That which I spend

Looking for accidentals dripping in reverb

Fresh Light

Fresh Light

Reflections cleared from rising mist

Into the breath

Into subversive footholds

Do you still know me?

No, not like before

This is a new face I shine upon you

Purified, radiant

Look upon, look within

See me changed

In the wages of commanding assertion

Tell me something beyond the obvious

Remind me what you always knew

Transplant me to the beginning

Yet make me anew

Judge not, fail not almighty

The river knew me not

The incense passed by me, unchanged

Deeper you emanate to the truth of your love

Your assertions correct

They flood my thoughts

They pursue the darkest places

Let them breathe in fresh light

Heart

Heart

Travels between/amongst tenses betrayed not

Fill the moments we seek

If there was anything between these spaces

Cry out

Into delight, into revelation

To be just and defined in your light

Welcome in, purify measure me as your own

Fill the realms within this stasis

To engage the angels surrounding this watch

Fewer be the doubt

Cleanse the fear, running from footsteps, from a racing mind

Who knows your heart?

See that pressure melt

Conformed, reformed, expecting

See that you are enough

Persist in passion poured out, flowing out

So saved knows my heart

Faint

Faint

Sometimes when it’s really quiet

I know the word I need to say to you

Everything caresses their purpose

And I am not alone

Through each verse reminds me

Of how everything gets lost in the envelope of what every page means

You look out from within

Yet everything has its place to begin

When how am I so shied away from that instant?

Can I merge with the portal and not be consumed in its draught?

Simplicity has its own law of averages

Feeling lost, consumed, bitter

No, thoughts emerge on a quieter plane

When you are revealed

Your suggestions are passports

The irises faint before there the fewest of hope prevails

I am smitten to refract and devour what witness have I left?

The Missionary's Song

As the heat trespasses upon dusty ground

Is it safe to pray aloud?

Has the wind brought confusion to our minds

Can we offer up thanks even though we are blind?

This is the exhaustion that comes with every day

Too long I have been removed by the wait

Silence eats up all the words we could exchange

For you know why, Lord, I am held at bay

But I am not alone

Buried in the distance

Here is but a wilderness

And this work of my heart is my witness

Here is the place called home

The only dream I have ever known

Some tease and say its far from heaven

Oh, but this is the place He owns

In Amazement

In Amazement

What is it that knows,

Beyond the grave, beyond this moment?

You challenge my weaknesses

You ask better questions

You love me, without comparison

Flood in, take my doubts

And show them your light

Give me your confidence

In every awareness be my guide

There are promises you keep

There are moments where I am arrested by you

Show me your freedom

In amazement, in awe,

In the certainty that your truth will cleanse me

Welcome, you are welcome here

Burn into our hearts

What is your love

That last beyond the temporary

Fleeting life

Wholly

Wholly

I wish what was clear to me

Was clear for you

I cannot seem to feel any deeper than the surface

You are not ready to leave

Poise, precision acts of God are on your side

But who are you?

You are not what brought you here

You are a child of God

Free to be, free to choose

Free to believe, to offer, to move

Beyond the minefield, the static that beholds you

You are free when you choose to be

All that you were created for:

The answers you were born with

The power to behold

Simply yours to own

Wholly

Compasses

Compasses

Only memorizing the pages I have left

Feeling through your thoughts

Some are easier left for quiet hours

Helplessly considering all latter options before the spill

Maybe once you are sure of yourself

You can start talking again

Freedom achieved in a war uncalculatable

From their birth you take them away

Serving the ruse

Major constructs

Fleeting abilities swarming in the dust

You can measure all that sows in needles

Kits borrowed, strings loosely attached

Where in every mercy clings tightly

Motivations all ideal

Senses moving through imaginary compasses

Consumes Me

Consumes Me

What I find blameless I have spoken for

Could you come back and leave me less defined?

Currency is a fable

Is a marked contrast

To the lie when I should have not been able

Make it all, make belief

Tell me you have more than just words to give me

Tell me, show me your heart

And let me know:

For what survives is not a blank stare

You are more than able

For willing is the thought:

The song that consumes me

Juried By Your Presence

Juried By Your Presence

I don’t miss the expectations

Seemingly someone else fed me

When you walk in the light

When you breathe in the light

You are reminded

The proof of your being

I want to live past the insurance

To become all at once the realization:

Presence upon glory

Some truths beg upon me

You feed them slowly

I am full of imagination

How are you so good?

More than time is sufficient

All that winds into securities

That involve long division

Move me to see the vision of what else

Could this be,

A movement,

An approximation

Juried by your presence

So Obvious

So Obvious

Luck grieves before it believes

It turns around to crisscross into arms forgiven

You hold on some more as feelings assume new shadows

What blessing is there when I cannot hear you breathe?

The torture confounds me

Lost in a space that covers into night

Have I been afraid?

Never like this when hours drag until something dark has lifted

Am I, can I assume the worst is gone?

The buckle has worn off the easy chair

What was removed,

What went where all appliances scuffle into thin air?

If I could believe the apparition

Then all assumptions would be made perfect

In a planet where the safe bet was silence

And nothing removed from its wake was different

From the path that chose me here

In tune, in complexity, in vibrancy of choice

To be bothered simply by being noticed

I love when I cannot complain

And the truth is so obvious

Or Not

Or Not

Down the path I know

Wrought with obstacles

The ones that tarry,

The ones that grow beneath the gaze of steady lines of sight

I wonder what you alone must know

Redeemed as me holding down to the point of forgiveness

All along what gives our strength poise amongst fading light?

Something must live to survive

When all else fades as has to let go

Where are you, what do you know?

How can you help me?

If only you must see what I cannot

You know what I must give up

And you ask me to sit and listen

Everything is alive

Darkness creeping in or not

As You Pursue

As You Pursue

What end, what process confirms to whom we know

That in evidence lies the multitude of promise?

In the light, in the course

That forgives through imagination

Into clarity

To awaken what suffered

And to make known in confidence

The resolve and the posture

The cure of what is ease and presence

What moves you is faith

And the seeds you give as talents

Where the orchards have been placed in my hands

When you can awaken

And then restore

The gravity you pull me

I rest in your provision

Take us into the pursuit of now

Into the amazement

Where you evolve and pursue me

Praise Forth

Praise Forth

What is it that knows,

Beyond the grave, beyond this moment?

You challenge my weaknesses

You ask better questions

You love me

Without comparison

Flood in

Take my doubts and show them new light

Give me your confidence

In every awareness become my guide

There are promises you keep

There are moments when I am arrested by you

Show me your freedom

In amazement, in awe

In certainty that your truth will cleanse me

Welcome, you are welcome here

Burn into our hearts

What is your love

That lasts beyond this temporary, fleeting life

Still True

Still True

Colors break free into light

I am left wondering,

How is it that you haven’t changed?

We all seem to stretch

How is it that you still meet us where we are at?

Memory is confusion

Is thinking backwards, oh what have I learned?

All that shapes me out of the phase

I have to end and let you begin

There’s a grip that tends without asking:

Is there my haste beyond rebuke?

If all I could do was rest

The best would be the word you gave me in the beginning

And is still true

A New Year

January, 1st 2017

There is a turn

A rise of air that twists a flight of swallows

If you could arrive

And push away the shadows

Where there is your home

In the midst of certainty

Its what you know

When everything speaks more then

Once in a song

As enough

As in more than weeks show off their patience

The more you end up decisive

As we building whatever we could own up to?

Fragile moments

We ease into the process of knowing we are not alone

Maybe this fancy is an evolving masquerade:

A moment in December

With one or the other,

No, that was yesterday

Of Peace

Of Peace

Pacify until you are lying long enough

Enter time

Like you were always meant to be enough

Where is this bridge that manages things?

I am posing

But the camera won’t budge

It cannot nudge me to smile

I am breaking

But I don’t know what for

As I keep on evolving

Till the fix I am solving

Fixes itself

Loose strains edging toward the completely oblivious

Nocturnes of peace

Transparency

Transparency

What is this legacy you pour out before me?

See me, take notice

But is this what I want you to know?

Is this the level of acceptance,

How I want to be measured?

No, it is limitless

It cannot be measured

Please somehow reveal something tangible

Come in for a landing

Share who you are

Not what you do

Have an opinion

Do you laugh?

Make honest the pursuit

Of just being one of us

Someone Else's War

How can you say,

Its worth all of that?

There’s nothing left to do,

But join the army?

I see into your children’s eyes:

Into magical prisms of deep blue

How long do you plan on seeing them?

Have you thought this out,

Is this your only option?

I get it

Security, income

The fight for freedom

Yes, and someone else’s war

Is this admirable?

An ideal perfected, protected?

Brave is two shades away from being mislead

Tell me you have thought this one out some more?

When will you see your children’s eyes?

When the bills are paid?

When the battle has stopped,

And the next one proliferates on someone else’s watch?

Through

Looking through an ocean

The light carries ripples, shadows on golden sands

I don’t have far to go

Till I reach that place

Where all distraction has left

And all I see is you

There’s something apparent

That holds me at your gaze

Perfectly I know it

Even from a ways off

But when I reach for you there

All of the pain melts away

And you are still as simple as a child

A child way before what chased you

What made such confusion

For what we could have spoken could have taken too much time

Memory is a moment stored away

When all we want is freedom:

From the chains and our minds

The ways the waters still reach the shore

And find someone beautiful, perfect once more