Castles in the Air

Castles in the Air

Building castles in the air

On the wings of love

I’ll be there

 

God in mind

And love in heart

Hand in hand

 

What do we find

Never to part

United we stand

 

The shield to our avail

As the winds gust

All pain and evil

Turn to dust

 

In your command

I land

In destiny

 

In the arms of peace

The shelter

Of the flow

 

The river is me

My garden grows

We are one and all

 

Lest we drown

Lest we fall

That shall not be

 

The gift of love

A life raft to all of us

Thrown to us from up above

 

The forces and the powers that be

Enshroud and encircle me

The angels up high who fly

Rain peace and serenity

 

To be the current of love

To honor all that is

To pray for navigation

To stay on course for all eternity

 

To bloom

To see

To flourish

Into immortality

 

Building castles in the air

On the wings of love

We shall be there

 

Glorious in our light

Victorious in our plight

Shadows of the past

Are left alone to fast

 

To become innocent and pure

The bliss of an eternal rapture

In death lurks the vulture

In life lives the scripture

 

One for all

And all for one

Heed the call

 

All in circle

All in rhyme

All divine

All in time

 

The circle

All merciful

Will repeat

Death to defeat

 

Building castles in the air

On the wings of love

Who will be there

3/14/1997

Note: When I say in death lurks the vulture, it is a multiplicity of meaning…to face our sins, to go from denial into repentance makes us feel like we are dying at times, and there are forces who don’t want us to wake up and accept that we have failed, these forces are like a vulture to the needs of our soul. For we must face our sins, and repent, in order to ever have hope at atonement, and absolution. If we fail to take this task on, and truly walk in actions of repentance, we fail to see what taking on the new creature is when one believes he is saved. In salvation, is ultimate grace, and even though it is not solely by acts, our actions can potentially nullify our salvation, hence one needs to be mindful to truly go forward and sin no more. Hence, in life, lives the scripture, for it is the WORD inspired by our Creator and given to us as a guide.

Alive in Death

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I won’t cry, but I lie

I hold up my chin, but inside I die

The love we shared is no more

It is so hard to let you be…

My heart bleeds in despair

To realize I hurt myself beyond repair

It is hard to face

A love never to be replaced

 

The vase that is broken

Longs to hold life…

to hold water…

to hold roses again

Their beauty to behold

The softness of their petals to touch

The sweetness of their petals to smell

The sweetness of their breath

Even the thorns that sting

and draw blood to delicate flesh

 

The shattered fragments too hard to bare

too hard to witness

Too hard to sweep away

For the memory replays…

The thoughts of love

The thoughts of beauty

The thoughts of life

The breath of yours in mine

 

To unwind the chords of time

To re-write every verse

To sing the sad melody

As for today, I drown in my own reflective melancholy…

 

Will I ever…walk by walls and brush my hand slightly across them and feel the love that has pulsed through my veins and heart…ever again? Will my chest ever rise at the breath drawn in that knew what it was to love and to be loved? Will you ever forgive me, and will I ever forgive you, and will we ever forgive ourselves? Will we ever be free to know love again? I won’t cry, but I lie. I hold my chin up, but inside I die.

It is hard to face the deaths that lie before me, for they are many. Will I be re-born and witness life through the eyes of a child ever again? I hold on in hope that I can discover how to find myself within all the pain…

The joys of pain to be alive in death.

December of 1997

 

 

A Man in Love

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A man in love will drive hundreds of miles to date his beloved, but once a man has that woman, if the love he thought he had turns out to be lust, his interest to drive a thousand miles for a piece of ass vanishes.

 

I want a man who would drive a thousand miles to be with me today, and everyday like it was the first. His love for me witnessed by his yearning to be with me, I will see as a love that is true.

 

In the beginning of relationships, a man will linger on every word of his beloved. If he lets other things in his life take precedent, he will no longer have time to listen and will become impatient, and most intolerable. A woman senses the things a man becomes intolerant of, and if they signal that it is something she is doing quite naturally, then she knows her natural self is being denied its existence, and off to more fertile ground will her heart yearn to plant. For how can love thrive when the cultivating of love does not take precedent? Often love comes quite naturally, and often the tiller of the soil is necessary to sacrifice in the cultivation in order to reap what he sows. Men listen, women listen for even in love you reap what you sow, yet love is a gift to continually give, for God gives us this very gift continually. If we mimic the Father, will he be pleased, I think he is, and more yet he knows that is what it takes for us to be well pleased.

 

Is there a righteous man left to teach the ways of the Lord to his wife. Why are so many women so fearful of submission to a Godly man? Are they in fear of the very man they claim to love when they take a man to wed? Why would a woman want a man she did not respect to care for her every need under the direction of God? Women live in fear these days to be in subjection to men, and often that is the very man they marry. I believe it is they know inside their man is not a man of God, and that is at the root of their fear to submit! Yet herein is a paradox, for we are all children of God, if we so choose to be.

 

Can love thrive and bare fruit, when ye keep your garden dry?

 

I yearn to know the ways of the Lord. For I want to know how to keep my garden full of the flowers, and the fruits of his blessings, for to be without his instruction is to be back in the void. Out of the void we came, do we return there if we fail to see and hearken to his eternal wisdom? I believe to be born in this life is a blessing. In essence to go beyond the void is our purpose, to return to God pure and undefiled. It is his teachings, to heed Christ to cleanse the blemishes by daily renewal to walk toward the light, for by walking toward the light is the best way to be walking in the light. The baptism is a continual cleansing, the more muck and corruption of the world caked on us, there needs to be an awareness of what one must do to keep the filth away. To tread back on those same paths again is like a child playing in the mud never learning of the beauty underneath it all. Why play ye with dogs in pits where vicious men barter their souls in their drunken wanton escapades where the vanity to escape into their power plays is a snare that captivates the innocent and the fools? Get ye up and clean yourself off and tread not there again. Wipe the dust of their corruption off your feet! Wipe the dust of your own self-deceit off your feet, for your purpose is not completed ever in such filth.

Written some time between 1996-2003

Note: A man in love, taps the well spring of the divine, with arms wide open in surrender his well never runs dry….the Christos manifestation in actions of emulation…where miracles happen, and the spirit lifts and dances in delight…the body is lifted by every cell bathed in this wondrous light.

 

Are you Listening?

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It is love that is the most important gift of all

To love abundantly is to banish fear

and when there is no fear, there is love

In opposition lies hate which writhes to abate,

so hard to resist,

spins deep despair

So heavy laden hearts near and far,

Remember Love does conquer all

Through Christ, God loves us all

Through the tears we learn to remove fear,

and learn to rejoice and experience joy

Not for ourselves, but for all

who seek peace and comfort in God

So may peace be a river to the free

Those free from the chains

the world enslaves us all to

Break the chains

No longer in bondage

for love transforms us all

All you have to do is open your heart

so true light may reach you

No more walking the fence

when you walk with God,

there’s no need to worry if you fall

For God’s love helps us to stand

and to grow tall

Can you hear Heaven’s Call?

 

5-16-93

 

Participating in 3 years of Bible Study influenced me to think and write on these matters.

A Gift of Surrender

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You ravaged me at the feet of my Lord

I took you into the shadows

For our deeds became transparent

Mine was to love

And before the throne I bowed

In servitude and surrender

Our hearts running wild

Amidst the wires in our minds

A message to unfold

In time

Manifestations of deeds undone and revealed the veil was pierced

And now you will begin to see

Through eyes

The wisdom of you

May your deeds be pure and true…

There is no turning back, what has been seen will be shown unto you…

A love immortal

Not in vain

There are eternal truths never wavering

For this cause you will come to understand

My gift of surrender

by Grace I am

August 2016