Love Poem

"For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" Matthew 6:21 I find my heart surrounded by warm hands with steam rising up, encircling fine lines and wrinkles of the face across from mine. “What’s your order?” I ask the simple question that softens the air, making room for stories to be exchanged and memories to begin. The question that connects the businessman and the student, the pastor and the manager. I love the acquired taste of bitterness in the dark

The sky is blue, The pond moves in response to the touch of the wind, Creating ripples and waves above the surface Across from me, past the plants that are still beige from the winter snow, A crane stands pretty. Another one of the Fathers wondrous creatures, He stands out in contrasting gray against the beige, brown, and faint green landscape I’m too far away to get a good picture But I know in my memories This will stay, another snapshot of God’s amazing artwork A crow stan

The rain didn’t stop today, and the skies are more gray than their usual blue. It lacks depth, there’s no dimension up there today And the rain falls slowly From the gray. Lush, pine green trees stand beautifully underneath, with brown trunks supporting the foliage. A seagull passes through my vision, rather quickly. The rain hasn't stopped today, but life still grows, and birds are flying. And I, Await. The clouds are not dark, yet they are heavy And gray. I am heavy, and gr

Inspired by “Restore us, O God; make your face shine on us, that we may be saved.” Psalm 80:3 My solicitous soul cries out at the sight of decomposing bodies that still breathe. Tied to intoxicants in a cry for help, or maybe an act of defiance. They’re wandering the streets. Raising their voices at invisible forces in a sobering cry. There is a heart behind the eyes where widened pupils house a name only You know. I see the substances that kill when their eyes close to the L