Perfect Love

November 27, 2021 by Rick Stassi

Do I really

float upon

whimsical seas?

Rudderless,

hopeless,

in random breeze.

Or does hope

arrive on

descended dove.

To lead,

to nurture,

with perfect love.

youth

October 26, 2021 by Rick Stassi

a whisper unfurls

in delicate green,

as innocence arises

in hopeful serene.

give to the world

and take as you might,

we are the better

in your wandering plight.

dreams

October 7, 2021 by Rick Stassi

peering deep inside my soul,

fearless abyss awaits

my curious and peering eyes.

wandering

in the solitude of

darkness,

a black hole absorbs

light and childhood frivolity

holding onto the last glimpse

of innocence.

Why can I not see in to what

secretly peers out of the void?

I lost so many parts of my self

without a sound.

without knowing,

the dull pain of sadness

swallows carefree levity and

forgotten memories.

Holding sway, is

the stagnate air

surrounding

lost dreams I never knew

I had.

Pensive

September 19, 2021 by Rick Stassi

Springing, seeping,

waters flow.

Lithely, floating,

Autumn glow.

Waxing, moaning,

harvest sky.

Closing eyes,

sorrowful cry.

My Father’s Love

August 27, 2021 by Rick Stassi

Clinging on to

wings of grief.

Fading, falling,

Autumn Leaf.

If I should bear a trifle more,

I fear I’d burst

to crystalline hoar.

Longing outward to

guardian gaze,

on deeper waters

soon to laze

to know then

as already known,

in my Father’s love

I’m never alone.

abide

August 11, 2021 by Rick Stassi

I wish I was whole again

Cast darkness aside,

To see myself clearly,

In Your arms, abide.

A treatise on the world

February 27, 2021 by Rick Stassi

How desperate these times
of angst and anger.
Of self-promotion
and egocentric reason.
I believe in God.
The one absolute,
and single point
of overarching redemption.
I believe the continual
creep of relativistic thought
and truth dilution
cannot dissolve
this absolute.
I believe in love
from a single point origin
where there are no conditions
and selfless focus holds sway.
I believe judgment is veiled with
a self-serving love –
a deception which is steeped
in the minds
of an unreasonable and
uncaring world.

Rick Stassi copyright 2021

Prayer for Humility

February 13, 2021 by Rick Stassi

Struggling to give up
The predominance of self-centeredness.
The instinct for self-preservation,
Is surpassed by the need to look outward
In empathetic realization
That we as a whole are better
When we consider God,
And others,
Before ourselves.