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Slowly defrosting melody
Gather echoes to see this reality
Philosophies they lost their keys
What is truth if not of thee?
Let go of my reasons for searching at all
A cargo of motives constructing a wall
Holding up these fears encased
Walk around please, don’t erase
Afraid to get lost, saving change for the cost
A prepaid vocation
Shipwrecked by sensation
Don’t wanna sit still, I won’t see the bill
Sucking my thumb annoyed by the chill
I can’t succeed without the need
A comfortable cry, birds never will fly
Polish my life with unwanted strife
A drum is persisting relentlessly lifting
Stability settled, love steaming the kettle
Get out of bed! This infantry dead!
Come and fight! Let death become right
Let reluctance align with your wisest design
My squeezing eyes release these ties
No life in lies
Compromise dies

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Untested valor accuses the coward
Spread the still seeds
Prepare undone deeds
Open unbound space
Crumple time, empty race
A passageway to where they say?
Outside today a narrow way
A cost to pay eternal stay
Risk vain delusions of forgery
To allow the open heart surgery
Dehydrated soul, a wide wanting hole
Wicked onslaught you fought
False chances are shot
Now digest the truth you see
After draining all that seemed to be
What have you to be after prisons are free?
No shackles to fight, replaced garments so bright
The scalpel so able to break the weak fable
They hide your bold power
Strength sweet as a flower
Wait outside the hour
Till this heavenly shower
Redeem the dead coward
The Foreword to valor

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I try to find the easy pace
As pain aligns my stinging face
Mind and muscles out of joint
Avert my heart and miss the point
I grow weary of the noisy race
As I search the crowd for someone’s face
Where am I going? What is it I need?
I thought I would find it by changing the speed
Hardened by pain where anger remains
Trample the vein on my vain speeding train
Satisfaction feigned with a fool’s hope humane
My heart of hearts on walls of taupe
Clouds slide down the melting slope
Fresh oxygen come clear my eye
A taller sky to tell me why
I’ve lingered here this stifling sty
Now a joyful drum tells me to come
Spilling this laughter through gates ever after
Walking through fields
Where light blossoms yield
The whole soul unsealed
Reign of heaven revealed

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Time has come to deliberate
What do we have to celebrate?
Recreate sunrise in soft disguise
Improvise a confetti of lies
What is left to uphold?
The sacred tale told
Time allowing the mold
Setting stakes in the fold
Divide these limbs to separate locations
A fate game of twister all over the nations
Hoping for heaven on summer vacations
A trail walk of nails toward some twisted elation
Keep tossing these pieces of my heart
That stab my back to thwart my start
Of any real lover to discover
Keep those eyes under the covers
Box me in with other lovers
Hungry babe without a mother
Unzip these stifling fabrics
I don’t believe your rotting magic
Break the hook unveil the nook
My house you shook, reclaimed your book
Replace the white crook
Reclaim what they took
Left with no man to serve
For my lasting reserve
Unambiguous heaven
Till the hour eleven

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Divorcing the imposition
Glorify my intuition
Keenly perceiving your transparent face
Turning my back to the darkest disgrace
Spin me around in elegant form
Don’t offer me that lukewarm norm
Fight through the hopeless infamy
Vague designations of falsity
See the synchronized lies abide
Deride inside wide span of pride
Pretentions take flight
United in might
Peaceably made undignified
Constrict me not
Revolution of Ought
Leaving orphans distraught
War needlessly fought
But destined to rot
Twisted functions begot
Some gallantry wrought
What spineless scheme taught
No enchantment, no cause
A kingdom like Oz
Congruency of minds
Chase discoveries and finds
Looking deeper to the void
Deifying paths of Freud
Any hope of finding truth?
An intermittent glimpse of You
Wrestling with my impudence
Come cool my sea of confidence
We’re living without real cause to fight
Looking for pills to cure our blight
Defeated loss without a boss
Yet slaves to death that sour sauce
Passing peaks obscured by moss
It’s time to awake!
Your hope has come!
There is freedom at hand
Your heart has been won!
Put doubt to death
Faith gasps for breath
Go burn the best
There’s more to test
The greatest feat beyond this wheat
We’ll never grow above the throne
No more meat left on the bone
Let’s find our place
Put scoffing to waste
I’ve had but a taste
As You lift my face
Put an end to the chase
I’ve fallen into grace
Let go of my might
I’ve found a cause to fight

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Tell me what you see

Through the wreckage and debris

See blank words on a page

I let you take the stage

Pierce through the dark lattice

Highlight letters through the cactus

Twisting vine that thief of time

Twighlight calls

The curtain falls

Beckon the blue

Splitting cedars in two

Your answer resounds

Come stir me around

Flipping pages these eyes of mine

Of a photobook

Memories you took

I’m standing in this puddle of time

A rising chime outplays the crime

Standing on Familiar Street

Adult and child they finally meet

Come spread apart insightful night

Let your tale of light take flight

What heavenly colors swirl

Illumination of white unfurl

Come greet the great fate

Obliterate debate

Our simultaneous stories

Overwritten by the glory

Greater than I

Tell me to cry

Standing in Your shadow of time

Searching for some way to rhyme

Tell me where to stand tonight

Fly me like a floating kite

Soar above that earthly clock

Remove me from my safety smock

Untie loose frames that square me in

Like stretching doors and pulling pins

Pull the bandage from the earth

Bleeding cut sewn tight from birth

Reopen pain and awaken nigh

Loose the scales so old and dry

Incline thine heart press into mine

Tell me now someway somehow

Where do I stand beneath your bow?

Those lovesick eyes

Absorb these cries

I’ll prophesy

No plight shall rise

I am no more this wanting sore

A question defined like never before

You draw me beyond this paper I’ve draped

Over the canvas, the walls and the shapes

Let me escape the jacket I’ve made

Show fiction the door to the faithless parade

Tell me to stand by the light of the Son

Tell me I’m yours

A fallacy won

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Small and dark

Scorched by the son

The day breaks upon you

Why won’t you stand and turn?

Absorbed by shallow reflections

Enjoying the feel of dust

We’re blinded by the shoreline

And time still waits for us

But soon the time is coming

For time itself to end

We can’t keep building castles

When the lion leaves the den

Why won’t you stand and turn?

The Son is around the bend

What will you be building

When Beginning becomes the End?

Now it springs upon you

The dawn an open gate

You’re playing on the shoreline

and the end will be too late.

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Let contrast ripen
Waves of order resound
Choking on my illusions
Saving stumbling block found
My indignation flailing
a new wind abating
Come back and breathe into my sails
Stretch my shallow tent
to a greater height and length
Let the wretched cries rise
let all compromise subside
Redeeming my shame
You’re giving me my name
Burnish my sword with fire
Torch the bridges of desire
The poison of comfort
driven to the void of false hope
My inadequate disclosure
begets the heavenly rope
Shatter my rebellion
unfold the fanning mystery
Meet me here at the beginning
at the end of all of me
Expose the bruise of deceit
Show me how you weep
the place where sorrow greets beauty
How we come undone in your hand
According to this love’s measure
In weakness I choose to stand
Before I reach the edge of all
Will you stop this cataclysmic fall
Wake us now before the break
the cost of all of you at stake
Awaken now this new hope burning
Bend and stir a new love churning

Restoring complacent compassions
I’m waiting at the end of all my rations.

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All the things I’ve wanted

All I’ve ever known

Seems a distant relic

My heart this living stone

Resting on the river bottom

Skipping along the sand

Fleeting echoes from the surface

Swimming melodies in your hand

The expanse of light swirling above

Like strings of the sun dancing over my love

All I’ve known is floating to shore

Spread me apart with this hand I adore

Every beginning retraced by your glance

Expose patterns carved from circumstance

That etched an inverted map on my heart

Would you bring this river to back to the start

Spill into these hollow eyes

Enter surprise through my disguise

Walk into my icy cave
At the edge of winter send the wave

Step into untreaded seasons of me

Shifting river leveled by your feet

I follow this breeze searching spaces in me

My warm exhale breathing open to see

Ancient garments removed waiting to breathe

As you wait for me to hand you the key

Unravel the borders of all my constructions

Unlace broken love strings that no longer function

Play forgotten songs on the walls of my soul

Remind me of melodies renewing what’s old

Calloused wounds intertwined with mirrors of you

Awakening textures as you heal the roots

Now my glass surface mimics the sky

A neutral horizon once black and white

Now witness explosions of colors so bright

The body so still, our reflections are merging

The puzzle of stones set a clearer course surging

Now at dusk the sky becomes two

As the great river rises and joins the vast blue

Widening below as you widen above

Would you stand on the bank singing new songs of love

All I’ve known now a relic of stones

Lining the hedges that lead to the throne

In the midst of my ruins you’ve planted your vows

These flowers of hope breathing life on my shroud

At the edge of these waters where rivulets meet

We’ll come to the start at the end of the street
I’ll carry your flowers and walk on my stone
and you’ll hand me my name written next to the throne

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Parking in preconception
Unaware of my deception
Despising my demolition
Just cleave to good tradition
Don’t look beyond the hill
It’s wisest not to spill
But it’s all relative they say
Let’s live for just today
They can’t see this infection
They just came for the reception
The wedding doesn’t interest me
Just let love be I choose to flee
Give me the convenient lie
I can’t handle the entire pie
The ground here is so soft and dry
Why should I acknowledge the sky?
O how they steal from you
to deny what’s true
Comfortably numb with this broken thumb
Can’t grip your strength and deny the length
Breathe on down this flimsy wall
Dignified pride so blind and tall
Watching every last falling stone
Crashing into love renown
You say you don’t see the ceilings
But you’re residing in your feelings
Collapse this independence
and awaken my transcendence
I’m baking in my leaven
Bring me back to Seven
Where all I want is Heaven

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