Digging in for Another Day

All around me are familiar faces,
oh, the band marched on in formation.
Racey days help me through the hopeless haze.

Blessed be your name,
dear Prudence...
we fall down.

Hey there, Delilah,
better pack your bags and run.
I'm the son of rage and love!
Go!

You feel bad
As I walk through the valley where I harvest my grain.

I must go on standing.

She lives with an orange tree.
My life is in you
fumbling his confidence.

Chronometrophobia - the fear of clocks - the fear of time -
I've got a black cat walking across my path,
every night I get down on my knees and pray:
how lovely is your dwelling place?

A Brief Suggestion for Anyone Approaching Beauty in its Natural Habitat

Faerie is perilous,
pitfalls and dungeons...
The realm wide, filled:
All beasts and birds;
shoreless seas and stars uncounted;

beauty is an enchantment, and a peril;
A man fortunate to wander,
richness and strangeness tie the tongue.
Dangerous to ask questions,
lest the gates should shut,
the keys be lost.

Heaven's Ghetto

inspired by a conversation about 2Pac

I wonder if Heaven's got a hood -
A divine ghetto where the only way
The streets are paved with gold
Is if we melt our own teeth.

We tear our bling from our ears
And necks and toss it in the fire,
And from its diamond sparkle
We build towers of home.

The ill, and the sick, the broken
And the needy folks, left mamas
And abandoned children, we all
Gather in heaven's ghetto.

And in the perfection of poor love,
We wait. As Wall Street squeezes
Itself through the eye and
To the front, we wait patiently...

Knowing God will still be
there when we get there.

Casserole

I came to your table on a Friday morning
looking for three bites of a three course meal
But i left your table on that Friday, mourning
the food and the ambiance and the service's zeal

The words were stale and left a bad taste
like when you get biscotti but wanted biscoff
and the grease on my page was nothing but waste
a sensation that will take all day to rinse off

Though we know a poem to be a delicacy
like a caesar, a souffle, and between, a mackerel,
it's clear that, without energy or accuracy,
you threw one together and called it a casserole

An Acrostic for a Friend

Ignorance of truth is no reason to refuse
Love, nor ignore that which is
Obvious, and speaks for itself, as does a mirror.
Verily, verily, I say to you:
Every looking glass upon which
You come is calling; screaming loudly
Out to you! Sweet Angel, it says,
Unlearn the lies their Prince has taught you.
Judge by those that love you -
Ignore Him who hates you.
Let not the deceit of Him
Lead you deeper into yourself any longer...
In human beings, there is only darkness, but God
Affords peace to His children. When you trust Him,
No lie can penetrate His love for you.
Cry out to Him, my friend. Pray for strength to
Lean upon Him, even when he seems
Absent from wherever it is that you are.
Remember the history of His promises, and
Know that He is trustworthy, and will never fail.