Horizon of Hope

Horizon of Hope

There are slices of truth

Wars waged upon views pointed in opposite directions

I cannot be partial

But I bend when the wind that shelters me

From some purpose greater than mere thought

When it was simple

I raised my hand when I was called upon

I knew the answer

Nothing apart from me knew better

I have no teacher but yesterday’s voice echoing

I knew what it meant

But I believed in something better

So I faced my sail to the importunate cross-winds

And I caught what was left

To free me from the stagnant billows

My heart set free in possibilities

My eyes raised upon the horizon of hope

What You'd Hear Today

What You’d Hear Today

My function is lost along parallel lines

Trust is a must

When I cannot complain

It cost me nothing but time

Its was yours, then it was everyone else’s

But now it is gone

When it went by, there were only words

That meant so much more

If I could pretend I did not own them

If I could extend

And then you’d notice

All that attracts through a limitless plane

I knew once why you were listening

And I left you still amazed

But here goes my last try

If it didn’t matter, then why?

Coursing through all that remains

My luck, well that’s tough

I suppose there is another day

Every time I sit here long enough

The bells ring

But they are always off a little too early

And I just don’t know why

I am left so defenseless

Like I need more time

All that surrounds me is space

And given enough room

I just want more than a taste

What everyone deserves

If they had the heart to say

Let those be your words

That you’d hear today

There After

There After

I wish at time there was this thing we could call a trade

When we could see each other, through a different prism

I am not trying to write your book

I just want a part in it

Sometimes I feel my lines, I have spoken too soon

Like you are not ready for what they really mean

But I let go of them

So you’d see just where I am

There’s a calm that comes through receiving

And a burden that comes from a process that churns the other way

Everything doesn’t have to make sense right now

I am not after some perfect evolution

When all that is near is silence between our words

That is when understanding measures its worth

Into a world needing what we hunger for

And find solace in

Poise and the truth there after

Pardon Me

Pardon Me

If I am lost and need reminding

If my box is too small

And I need someone to confide in

I once thought, that all of my want

Would draw me out,

That it would be like a carrot

For me to chase,

Oh, unending

Like a guiding star

My feet still connected to solid ground

Around these walls

They are the only things I have known so far

When the wind blows

I’m inside, who am I?

Dry from the stale air

Drenched in the migrating pale light

That bothers me to and fro

Only so, where to go

Pardon me

Pain

Pain

Somehow there’s a difference

But you are off again

Walking with no shoes

They couldn’t hold you down long enough

You have your reasons

To tell those it cannot be done

To shove it

But when does it sink in?

When is it time to be patient?

There is always someone waiting to be healed

What makes you the exception?

In your world pain has lost its function

Pain has lost its patient

You are a miracle

You perform miracles

And if it was up to you

You wouldn’t wait

(to believe in pain)

Forever

Forever

I don’t know what you are

I just know you by what you are not

And that does not make it any easier

Looking both ways

And standing stuck in the middle

To the extent of which I borrow a vision

Stretched out and not wavering

I look at what is now building upon a foundation

So swift and staggering

Tell me now, do you need a disciple?

I am just wearing out my way around what is useful

And what is ours somehow

Incompletely absolved

In a moment we treasure as forever

In Your Mighty Sea

In Your Mighty Sea

There’s no difference

The same mountain, the same height the same width

It will confound you to the ground

It will punish you

With your feet cemented still

Far above the heavens take sight

I mere speck in the eye of the beholder

Where do you stand?

For if the mountain can be cast in the sea

From whose perspective do you start digging?

Take this burden

But it is but a trifle

Seas they swarm at your command

So let this festering eye sore

Be as no more,

For your might your strength

Will deliver me to the shoreline

And the sandstorm

Engulfed in your mighty sea

It's Not Yours

It’s Not Yours

Everything plotted

Turns round in circles

When you still haven’t learned

Just what faith will buy you

If all the cents were counted the same

If the weight of your heart

Measured more than wars it waged

Am I somewhere above the fray?

To it play out

Not sure if my help does any good

If your arms are still in storage

If your other arms are tied behind your back

I watch in envy

Because the work I see done in you

Is not just for today

Because I believe in the battle won

Its not yours give it up

Your Heart

Your Heart

There are it seems

Things you swear by

Things you’d like to change

And the more you reach

The more you find yourself

Still amazed

There are times I wish you could see yourself

The way I see you

All that we carry

All that melts away

Nothing still speaks

Still utterly says

I love you

As Your Heart

Wondrous

Wondrous

Dream, why do you taunt me this time?

Why do you offer me this object of attention?

When my eyes judge

When everything is not what my heart says so

Lead me through to the suggestion

Your reign is here

If I am just a revelation

Of a moment in your reign

Seek and what is lost

Finds its way to your presence

The activation that sends the word,

The spirit pouring into this vessel

Change me

Conform unto me the choice

In this dimension

Make me whole

Make me wondrous

Today

Today

It is simple

The solution is time

What it waits for is trivial

Your acts, or God’s

I’ve poured upon the mysteries

Surrounding you

And why?

Only your thoughts can free you

Only my prayers can seize you for a while

But you have to go on living

Because thoughts they end up

Well, living

Off of what you held onto today

You Are Loved

You Are Loved

Fortunes or favors

Floating above the clouds

Not sensing the fury of condensation

The precipitation of dreams

I don’t see you here

I don’t see you living in fear

Whatever it was you said about now

Its nothing, its gone

Its out of here

I won’t hold you to

A marker of where we were

That’s not where we are going

You belong somewhere

Where there’s no judge to condemn you

You receive but its not what you’re seeing today

Rise above

If its just on this thought:

You are loved

More Than I know

More Than I Know

Some thoughts bind me

Before they are forgotten

I wince,

I take a page away

From the titles consumed

Feathered almanacs braced to be still

Plan another trip from somewhere

While I wish I am just stealing the most of my pride

If this is what it is

And nothing more

Why does the wind achieve its course to remind us where to go?

Into life, a promise

In every charge of peace

So guard my heart

When everything is calm

The still manages to achieve more than I know

Now

Now

What is light,

Unto the challenge of waking up

To an endless process

How are you my Lord,

Still in love with me?

You watch my thoughts

And you are not worried

You see me where I am

And you know that what you’ve called me to

Opens in your presence

Teach me to live right here

Conform the life that hungers for you

Bring in the light that leads me to you

Teach me your peace, teach me your love

Unto the journey that amazes me with hope

What truth is known to fulfill all that keeps getting measured into fullness

As you teach me

Into being

As you love me

Into knowing

Liberate your purpose

Show me what is your destiny

Enveloped in the now

Begging a Patient God

Begging A Patient God

Are you going through the motions with me?

Tempting to hold on,

Not sure what to?

Alleviate the thought, swimming in circles

Why am I inclined,

Broken by some curse reply?

The days are getting shorter

And the light I know you by,

What have I done to this point?

I am scared and I am jealous

You have a way of never seeming here

One foot planted

The other on some plane headed elsewhere

May if I could follow you

See a bigger picture

The light is dimmer

My resolve patient

Behind old vows and closed doors

In You

In You

Welcome, that you are always welcome

Open with violence the things that have been tamed

That have been told there is never the day

There’s never the change

Build within, secure within

That all above is purpose, the vision unbridled

Where you see faith

Where you flood in your amazement

You wait, is there anyone left who trusts you?

When nothing is seen

Nothing is heard

When logic is dumbed down and nothing seems possible

You are there in the first step

You are there in the gut-check

You wait for those on their knees

You wait for those who only put their hope in You

Silent Currency

Silent Currency

What are you up to?

Thousands of voices on tape-delay

Messages confound

Everyone responds

But am I listening to the right one?

I search for your truth

But find you hard of hearing

You seem divisive

Plotting my will against a legion

In every misgiving

I sputter and fragment my license to bear

Of how incredible my mis-estimation

This silence you beg

Fruit from a warehouse

Seeds in their season

Maybe time is still your currency?

Through the Fire

Through the Fire

Where is the evidence,

Poured out as fire upon us?

You hold out an everlasting hope

Sacred is the pursuit

That changes out souls and awakens the nations

All that we are sure of burns

Let it be this way always

I am, we are

I am take us to the confidence

To the precipice

To the edge of whatever we could be

With you, define the motives, define the purpose

Define with us into the fire

Where we are not consumed

Where you are with us

Sunrise Over Me

Sunrise Over Me

Once always

For a sometime

Reducing the plowshare

Today you divide the acres

The message

In sight of another row of contemplation

If you receive that, why are you seeming to correct yourself?

Into islands

Currencies removed

Tell me you are as serious

The vantage pours over it

It’s the same when you ask me to be quiet

All the layers transform into the presence of stillness

Of seeking you, you are found

Into promise

Into fields working out the effort

And the pleasure of seeing light

When warmth pulls me out of my soul

Reeling

Reeling

Is this even working?

Trying what I invested in

Trust is shallow water

Maybe the buy-in is too short

The sacrifice laden with opportunity

What have you been saying?

Translations of the heart-

There’s a better catch in deeper water

If I could rely on what could get me there

Would this world stop spinning?

Average all the recitals into flux

Into a passage of current

Betrayed in the end?

Take a step back

Or swim against the impending waves

What moves you faster, further?

Presence collides

At the end of the line