The Recipient

Stop raping me she says, Stop kneeling on me he says, Stop treating us like we are less than we are, they both say… You promised you wouldn’t kill us yet we were taken against our will and forced to build for you, then you say we are not good enough. Those left behind have […]

Rinsed Plight

Cast a net on my emotions oh glorious one Help me catch these feelings that now overwhelm me I am drowning in a river of my own demise Setting aside all that I know to be the truth; your word Only to erect these false monuments of ideals that do not have foundation in the […]

The Redeemed

Resurrect from within the dreams I had as an infant l, in that time I saw the world only in colors and through my mother eyes. I felt not hate nor did I see grief all I had was warmth and love. Oh what a dreadful world we find ourselves in with man dreading his […]

The Ants Go Marching On

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again they said that humpty was crying like a baby too History hopefully would remember Humpty Dumpty Not as a broken man but as a man of honor that […]

Catenaccio ‘Bolted door’

Butterflies pounding on the walls of my stomach My heart beat rises , but my voice grows lighter The light coming into my soul seems darkened by the sadness of my heart My eyes are drenched with liquid sorrow as my pulse drops Left in the lurch : deserted but not abandoned for gloom still […]

Christendom

Being around some of this modern day Pentecostal churches i am beginning to loose understanding of what church really is . The people are peculiar, not so in a manner that can be tagged but more so in terms of a cultural shock . It is almost a transition from the norm , a variation […]