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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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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Except in the light of hypocrisy Or in conformation to humane courtesy Men are under no obligation To give another a gift Concept of giving is founded So strongly on a base divine That he who must give That divine image must reflect Love is the unshakable base For the Father loved and gave Giving His utmost possession In that He loved so much He who must give In love must and not be compelled In truth, […]
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Xerxes was king in Susa Vashti, his queen pleased him not And for bride he picked Esther In Vashti’s place was Mordecai’s adopted Seasons later, for deprived honor Haman the Agagite, Hammedatha’s son Played into law, a decree All Jews were to die! The royal signet* sealed it Unchangeable, the laws of the Medes and Persians But Mordecai, though in ashes, lived in hope This law to avert laid he bid to Queen Esther Transcending another […]
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Many are apt to build barns When they have planted not a field So much in a hurry to hear the result Of a trial they are yet to face More value to them is roofing a house Its foundation, a later thought Others are that bear today’s dross In expectation of tomorrow’s clear silver They know not tomorrow Yet with the principles that’ll form it, are acquainted They know to bear today’s whims Hence able to contend success […]
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If your life be required of you To whom shall you plead a second chance? When eternity has come to be And your time on earth is no more! If your life be required of you What with shall you your crown claim? Whom shall you lead as your own That the weapons of your stay have brought? If your life be required of you What shall you your Saviour tell? To whom shall your plea be made? […]
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The deeds that are done Will in time be forgotten The memories of a past would read as none So say some The glory of the now will fade As mist in the sun’s shine Glossy though, the picture at present looks When ‘now’ turns ‘then’ its wear will show The past casts a shadow No glare can overshadow In it the present sees its future Otherwise maybe its futility “It’s forgotten, it’s nothing” Some […]
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Torch my heart O abstract bit Sit my quiver* with your arrows String my bow with unknown skill Target to hit, make it mine Though my quiver full of it Let the first that strings my bow Fly unhindered for the kill Love that I seek, make it mine …wholly mine Romans 12:9 “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.”(NIV)
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Forgotten are the days When we toiled till dark Our heads below our waistline Feet astride58 mounds of soil Forgotten are the years When we formed cliques, in uniforms Our desire; to learn what we ought So we could pass the test Forgotten are the days When we attended extra classes Seeking help in all nooks For a foundation, we sought to build Forgotten are the years When we fought with zeal, in queues For admission, gotten […]
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Oh! Lord, when sin I behold The past, which now is unseen Rebirths in the womb of now As thistles*, by a landowner, not sown The gift of grace though sufficient Sin in its stride is unrelenting* On the deeds of now, the future hoisted* What hope for the sons that are saved? In your love not unabashed* In your dealings, stainless and pure Fill us with reverence for the Father Who out of love, sent us […]
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