lifelong lessons
The nursery that grows my dream The birthplace of my aspirations Discouragement can blow no ill wind When I mount this podium* of mine I could stay hours unending Alone but not lonely Building my castle from foundation Seeing it rise from try to sky Issues have resolved themselves Fears dispossessed of their potency And determination made more proclaim Here, in thought and nowhere else When I need answers, solutions When I see a desire and need […]
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Who has halved our joy? Dried us as does dearth* Tossed us into turbulence like a buoy* If you may, call him death He has claimed our own So did he the world’s Messiah He dared to have us shaken and thrown But sure is God’s spoken word, His desires God’s promises still stand Our future may delay but will still be Death can’t singe* our hair, not even a strand He will but only sting as […]
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Ever beheld your ship set sail Without a mast, rudder or wind On track like a courier mail Having no point but its target to mind? Ever seen a point of weakness That rids you of all strength Yet in a show of excellence You’re like a man who went an extra mile Ever foreseen an absolute conquest Of a sudden outcome Yet without your making request Victory soars near to overcome? Of grace, count your blessings […]
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Truth is the tale told To all men and not sold Many not in the fold Will rather than believe grow old We forget so often that our lives Though they droop live eaves* And placed within our reach Are not ours to preach Many live the truth in disguise Tell it in ways that are unwise Even a silent fib* will still read as vice And some being reticent* think they’re nice The harm they […]
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Many have challenged the existence Of the one who is called I AM Putting to test everyone who’s called by His name What in essence proves to them that He is? When the lions refused to eat fresh meat It was a proof to king Darius That I AM could alter nature’s course Not unto any’s glory but His alone When the fire lost its burning It was to show a bragging Nebuchadnezzar That not always does heat […]
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So many tales have been told you Of your origin, your background and source Details glaring, so much so That in your analytical mind You seem born forsaken Time dims our yesterdays But scars so ugly reminds you That your past is a skeleton of wrongs And though you sought forgiveness Condemnation looms to say “You are forsaken” Amidst the gathering of brethren Your heart is lifted of burden But when the night is come Often you wet […]
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Time was, when came the call Like Samuel upon Saul The urge to serve was like spring’s fall Your desires were to go as led, to all The transition was uneasy, from being the led Sometimes the call you almost fled And the moment that most counted Your confidence anchor no longer held Coached on the provision of grace Experienced on grounds of the leadership race You took a shepherd’s place Keeping ahead of the sheep in pace […]
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Shade from the forest trees Has the forest floor darkened Any shoot that thinks to thrive Of its own builds a coffin A seed by nature did fall From the height of her parent’s thought Upon the lightless soil with a thud* Deep sank her roots, in bravery, she waited Canopy-laden trees looked on with indifference They knew Little Shoot’s end or thought so Little Shoot with strength chose to compete And deeper, sank her roots “Big […]
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Not when the urge no respite knows Not when so glaring reveals the details Do we know we battle We wrestle daybreak till twilight! As many seem not to see And of the devil’s wiles make plea So the accuser seems unseen Fuelling the store that makes plea Under the hood of subtlety* Many a trap is set Not to utter fall But to provoke and ensnare Deadening our conscience’s check These wiles will ebb our strength […]
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Who is me that Thou art mindful of? Son of whom, of whom thou taketh account? Am I not a fleeting breath? Whose days are but shadows in all I dwell in the confinement of flesh And I’m plagued within its precincts* Battling my spirit to do Thy bidding From the grasp of mine weakling self Salvaged from the claws of the world prince Placed above his powers and principles But still in craving for his barns, in my […]
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