hope
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O poor man you so quickly give up when diverse atmosphere shrouds an otherwise happy moment grasped onto as securely as climbing a rope of cascading sand. Life is nothing more than a failed memory, joy faded, peace penetrated, melody unresolved in chords connected to hope in your unsettled soul’s symphony. Existential nightmare of a… Read more
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Your oversight of precious worth Sustaining life apart from mirth Blind to glances of loving care Leaving lost senses unaware Despair’s song the mourning dove sings You were meant to hear such things Shadows hide the sunlit glare In hidden darkness a lifeless lair But O, the mist of early rain A calming tear is… Read more
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The stillness of deep black space void of sound save my own heartbeat. Such a dark and vacuous ocean waiting for one piercing ray of light permeating from some distant star long dead. Patient for my choreographed dream sequence where soul separates from temporal vessel and seeks eternity while waiting for time to cease at… Read more
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“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him” Colossians 2:6 KJV Walk in Me Over valleys of streams And mossy lea ever soft Receiving footsteps Caressing weariness Bidding confidence Harboring pale sunlight Though moor and fen-misted Pleasant places where sweet Melodies linger upon the breeze. Walk in Me Then onto… Read more
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dark and frail gray hanging on to a bit of white lest a black demise. overcast skies absorbing what sunlight it can waiting for night and equanimity of hue. pinpoint light hidden well within my soul shrouded in clouds screams to be heard playing with the thought that even a firefly can be a lantern… Read more
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