lifelong lessons
Many mighty have fallen, Slept under the weight The very ones they called burdens Beguiled by the zest of youth The pride of an unusual exuberance They have borne a little more Than what a standard scale calls ‘enough’ What they lacked was the know-how Innumerable and down trodden also Are the men that bore nothing And sunbathed on the beach of indolence They know not their fallen stance Nor is their hopeless end made known to them […]
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Hurting from a broken heart One I had tried to mend and failed I think of the times that were bliss When my future no gloom seemed to know Then, upon a cloud of trust I had floated an assurance of friendship and love Singing my days from bloom to bloom Digging to depths of some’s bosom Was I told of a day like this My doubts mount tops would‘a sailed And drank to scorn the sea Only […]
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Residing in every man Is the part he knows as his weakness When he is bent by pressure He fears to break, for he could He writes upon tablets of stone The deeds he has wrought in time The pits that accommodated his falls Are sad-tales none should hear One’s weakness could be anothers’ strength And standing together as one Affords no distinction, strong or frail Where one lacks, the other backs What makes unbreakable a bundle […]
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Life so smoothly cruises by Cascading hills and gliding across plains The power that bears a vessel Is not found in the size that defines the sail Nor in the mechanism of its make Like every mortal, this vessel is Not in the deeds of mere hands Or diligence of a devoted heart Is found the strength to carry through But in the tide of an undercurrent In the whisper of a known silent voice Is the one that […]
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Beings on six wings, in flight With unimaginable sonorous* voices, sing “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord Almighty The earth is full of your glory” Praises from the celestial realm Acknowledgement due the One on high Time having no unit of measurement Single days to thousand years, praises rain What privilege to join the choir above! To back-up leading voices of non-men And while angels hide behind great wings We come into this awesome presence, boldly Shall […]
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The strong have fallen by the wayside The burdened, afflicted a measure more Even the righteous are stung as well All because a man would speak Wished he had spoken what he knew Telling tales the way they are Adding not a clause of falsehood Even as he longed to speak Could a man for what to say Bear the lies of another’s lips Telling it as though he were sure Of every word he chose to speak? […]
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He grew a child and knew not God So he lived and carved a niche* Born at birth a sinner’s lad Knew he was and so remained Came a time he heard of Christ Who had died a death for him But he would not hear of it With his life he went ahead Many turns and twists he saw As he journeyed through his time Shifting grounds and plans alike But the end he saw afar […]
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Grown upon the soil of toil Every skill was honed* by striving Bettered by diligence in practice And styled by individual concepts Any man that envies another Sees not the uniqueness of his build And the crave that beguiles his being Is the very cause of his mediocrity Man that you are See beyond your nose In your wonderful and fearful make Lies uniqueness, human and divine! Psalm 139:14“14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully […]
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I dared to look Through the parted curtains of my life And I saw fresh leaves fall off my life’s tree I tried to pick them all up But couldn’t replace them at stalk The more I bent to pick The more leaves fell, still fresh I got weaker by the day And noticed my utter helplessness Then picked I for my path, a light For my feet, a lamp In it saw I celestial ministers By […]
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