Be My Last Thought Today

Be My Last Thought Today

Be in everything I do,

Be the whispers that I pray,

Be in the morning dew

Be my last thought today

I’m willing that You take

Every moment that You give

I want to know you more,

For only You do I live.

Be my only vision,

Be my saving grace

Be kindness through my touch

I’ll stay in Your embrace.

I’m throwing all away,

That life you might restore.

Please come and resurrect;

My spirit, make it Yours.

Be my only passion,

Be in my work and play,

Be in my countenance,

Be my life every day.

Let me hear You every minute,

Let me sing Your songs each day.

Let me love who You love,

Let me shine for You I pray.

Be a saving ray of hope

Be my righteousness, my stay.

Be peacefulness around me,

Be my last thought today.

Fall

 

Summer is dying.

I hear the voices that thrilled the air fading into chilled echoes that carry farther but leave the listener with a shiver that reminds of the hard seriousness of the near grave.

I see the clouds get thinner and higher as if shrinking back and mixing with the blue of the sky to hide from the cold that is sure to come and grip them with fingers of steel and carry them to the ground to land in piles of pure white upon every lawn and rooftop.

I feel the bite of the fresh wind as it laughs by my ears and whistles through the city streets, catching every blind and deaf fool and tossing their hair like the thoughts of a troubled artist and the leaves that tumble across every road, piling against each dirty curb.

I smell the fruit of harvest, and the fields rotting in the rain that keeps driving and streaming, beating a rhythm that will set the pace for a busy winter of stamping feet and hearts beating harder as if trying to exist through a long cold night.

Call Me Up

Call Me Up

Sitting at your feet in dingy robes

Faded, ripped and torn from life and sin

Without the river, without love or hope

Will it ever flow in me again?

Pressure on my shoulders- bow my head

Shame dripping from my bared dirty mind

What will You say? My heart full of dread.

To kick me as a dog would be as kind.

I wait, and wait for you to speechify

I wait for judgment, hopelessness I feel.

I sense your eyes upon me up so high

So lift my head in silence as I kneel.

But you aren’t angry as I had supposed

Your eyes are kind, shining with your tears.

A wave of subtle hope and sweet repose

And rivers break down walls composed of fears.

Joyous love, I see forgiveness gleam

From your white and shining holy being.

And from your face a blazing glory beam

I can not stand; your face I am seeing.

Now you take my hand- with your hands of steel.

Your strength flows into me with every touch.

You break the barriers and every wound you heal,

You transform me, how could it be you love so much?

My Friend

I knew it would happen, we’d carry apart

The halves of our lives which had not had a start

I knew that I loved you, but wouldn’t admit

Though you always said we were a perfect fit

Someday I will realize the reasons for this,

But right now I only see what went amiss.

I tried to say no, and because you were there

It was always easy to just enough care.

I used your heart badly, for only my good

You pushed me ‘til I began thinking I should.

I told you everything, and you did the same

We tried to be friends but it ended a game.

I miss you already, and I’m sad to say bye.

I guess that we will meet again in the sky.

The seasons will go by, but always I’ll see

Your face in the sunshine, smiling at me