It’s lost
Can it be found?
I’ve looked here
There and everywhere
To no avail
I’ve searched high
I’ve searched low
Have nothing to show
Where can it be?
Has it escaped me?
Do I go on looking?
Do I abide in my hope?
Is it all in vain?
With hope comes pain
Is it all a game?
Without it
I’ll never be the same

In life’s living circumstances
We often fear the consequences
While avoiding the problem
Less hesitation
Less conversation
Truth with action
Should be the reaction

Love with words
Is seldom heard
When love’s not able
We tend to enable

Judgments of the heart
Can tear love apart
No one really knows
It goes as it goes
For sometimes
When things get tough
Love’s not always enough
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“Awareness without action is worthless”
Dr. Phil McGraw

“An open rebuke is better than hidden love”
Proverbs 27:5

The ear touches the heart
The heart inspires the mind
Often you find
The ear can’t define
The eye becomes blind

Truth like water
Cascades gently down
Flows like a river
Awakening the ground

The ear can’t hear
What the truth has said
There’s no lull to the truth
The ear is dull?
The ear is dead?

Flavors of dull that infect the ear
Indifference
Detachment
Unconcerned
Incoherent
Muffles what you hear

The drip drip drip of the truth
The drop drop drop of the clog
The beat beat beat of the heart
The mute mute mute of the mind

Truth like water flows
To all it has chose
Its message is clear
Open your ear
If you choose to hear

For hard truth sets you free from
Ignorance and deception

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“Better to get hurt by the truth
Than comforted with a lie”
Khaled Hosseini

How many takes
To correct a mistake
How many tries
To dry your eyes
How many times
To make a poem rhyme
How many forgets
To dispel regrets
How many lessons learned
To begin to discern
How many lies
Before you open your eyes

Where the spirit leads
The body follows
The choices that are made
Are sometimes hard to swallow
When the spirit grieves
The body becomes hollow

Some may influence
The way you are
But to contemplate
May cause you to
Duplicate

To play the
counterpart
To steal an
Identity
To photocopy an
Image
Or to compare yourself
To yourself
And examine your own
Behavior

Who are you?
Don’t you know that
It’s who or what you turn to
That defines who you are
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“Don’t you realize that
Whatever you choose to obey
Becomes your master?”
Rms(6:16)

Why do you pursue what’s not right
For you?
Why is your heart defiant?
You substitute weak for meek
You remain silent
You let others speak

Why can’t you stand tall?
Why do you fall?

Under the spell
Of
smells
And
Bells

Under the trance
of
whistles
And
Chants

Why do you chase after the incense?
Why do you allow your senses to numb?
Why do you allow someone else’s conscience
To judge your freedom?

On the scale of life
Where one learns to weigh
The good with the bad
One would soon discover
That weighing one with the other
Is not capable of being had
For
In life’s living tapestry
Interwoven with twisted black and white strands
Of
Unforeseen moments
Complicated relationships
Unavoidable tragedies
Where
Good is good
Bad is good
And all things are as they should
For all things that happen
Happen for the good…(Rm8:28)

A city boy
With city ways
Blue collar parents
With not much to say
Learning the lessons of life
On the street
Where good and evil
Always meet

His friends where his whole world
School never mattered
The bonds they had
Could not be shattered

Fell in love
And to this day
No other love
Has ever come his way

Unlike Frost
He took the road most traveled
Swallowed up
He watched his life unravel

Chose a career
He didn’t plan
Honors and accolades
A successful man

Alone in himself
But never alone
Surrounded by family
He called his own

Lost his manhood
One day in March
But life over death
Was the only way

A Christian man
Never did compromise
You would believe
If you look into his eyes

A compassionate man
But you would never know it
Sensitive and caring
He’d seldom showed it

Waiting the appointed time
For his soul to be awaken
To return home
His earthly life taken
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“Lord make me know my end
and what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how transient I am.”
Psalm 39-4
“Behold You have made my days as handbreadths,
and my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Surely
every man at his best is a mere breath.Surely
every man walks about like a phantom; Surely
They make an uproar for nothing; Surely
He amasses riches and does not know who will
gather them.”
Psalm 39:5-6

Possessed by a haughty spirit
You display contempt or scorn for others
Having a high opinion of yourself
Self-absorbed
Self-important
Self-condemned
Leading only to self-destruction

You never hide
Your overbearing pride
With vanity as your guide
You make others step aside

Today it’s self esteem
Tomorrow it’s disgrace
Today it’s friends
Tomorrow it’s enemies

You chase after vanity
Like chasing after soap bubbles
Those you touch explode
Others implode

In the game of life
You throw a lucky seven
But a beautiful funeral service
Can’t guarantee you a place in heaven
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Don’t you know that at the
End of every road
There’s a mirror

You can’t seem to find what you’re looking for
Even though you’ve tried many times before
You discover your desires are never gratified
You long and yearn for a hunger
That needs to be satisfied
You find that you are no one
Until you have a purpose
Life can engulf you
As you struggle to reach the surface
You attempt to define
What’s already been predetermined
Lost, you wonder where you ‘ve been
Clinging to your thoughts
Locking your dreams in a jar
Placing yourself upon the shelf
Until you find yourself
Connected to someone else