| looking for a great book? The Great Divorce, by C.S. Lewis "Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried" |
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| What is this crazy world we live in?
These things mystify me.
Babies, laughing, twins
Sleepwalking
(thank you chris betz for the second one)
Your happy thoughts for the day. |
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| I found this, I don't know how I feel about this one, but I didn't have the heart to throw it away.
I have planted life in the deepest parts of your soul. in Sheol.
Writhing out of the darkness. Covered in mud.
My rain falls. drops bead and carry away.
Tiny shade of green, peeks through.
This new life struggles, gasps.
and is stronger
reaching for my song
a whisper of hope that turns into thunder.
Creation. You can't stop it.
I paint with light.
The delicate and the fierce.
Cocoon cracks.
The hard rain breaks like bullets on your skin.
but then you drink.
Nourish.
Tiny delicate leaves.
My song wakes the Sun.
This is our backwards lullaby.
Invincible light. You will be revealed.
All of life toils and twists
life will break free.
There is warmth in the light.
Then I will give you wings.
all things will sing
our melodies are harmonies.
This is our backwards lullaby
and it cannot be stopped.
it cannot be stopped. |
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| HIDE MY TREASURE
why didn't somebody say
they always come for your treasure...
why didn't somebody say
that you can't just be strong-willed or clever
you can hide in a castle or cave
but they always come for your treasure
i'm gonna hide my treasure
where it's safe
why didn't somebody say
that enough is never enough
the treasures you store up by day
are gone by the time you wake up
you can hide in a church or a bay
you can hide in your pain or your pleasure
you can hide but you'll never be safe
cuz they always come for your treasure
i'm gonna hide my treasure
where it's safe
I'm gonna make my escape
i'm gonna break from this tether
it's not easy to give it away
cuz what you let go of is safe
and what you hold onto was never
i'm going to hide my treasure
where it's safe from the wind and weather
i'm going to hide mine forever
where it's safe from the thief and destroyer
where it's safe
where it's safe
where it's safe
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SPRING
when I was young I painted in primary colors
brilliant and bold the strokes that were simple and strong
pictures of lovers and fathers and mothers and brothers
something always goes wrong...
i knocked all my paint buckets over
and spilled all my paints with brushes all dirty and brown
i was sitting alone in the... mess of my failure
and then you came around
and in the mess i couldn't clean
showed me orange and purple and green
and now its spring
it's spring
when it's all said would i change anything that's happened?
when it's all done was there one stroke not changed in your head?
and now i can paint what before i could only imagine
i just don't understand
you take each thing i break or loose
and just breathe for something new
and now its spring
its spring...
...we sang of the love that will never grow cold
we sang a new song we sang a new song
we sang
God is making everything new
God is making everything new
God is making everything new
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| I think we're all afraid God is going to kill us.
so we run and run and run, hoping he won't find us.
and then we see him and it's like seeing someone you "just knew" you were going to run into at the store or someplace. that feeling you get when your heart sinks, and you get goosebumps and want to throw up all at the same time. and your heart starts beating faster and you start thinking. "I'm in a public place he wouldn't dare try it now..."
so you want to run, but you can't !, because then he'll be out of your sight, and probably waiting for you when you least expect it.
so you just stand there with your eyes on him, you can't look away,
you just STAND there, staring, trying not to faint, look normal
there in the produce section, making small talk over a display of fresh cucumbers.
every time he smiles, the curl of his lip. His eyes squint, they narrow. they twinkle. you know what that means. LASERS!! you know, those damn bullets in your soul
eventually you break it off, excuse yourself, nonchalantly, turn towards the registers, he disappears down another aisle.and you drop everything
and run like hell
broken eggs mix with shards of glass and pizza sauce, clean up on aisle 3
fuck that stock boy, he probably had it coming
Run. out into the street, sweating, your heart racing, fight or flight
where can you go? what's the fastest way
but no place is safe from his weight, his crushing weight, so you find some soft ground and you start digging.
if you can just get down deep enough. 6 feet between you and him, yes, that should be good. and then finally,
it's quiet,
down there in your silent fortress.
you're completely comfortable, and safe
and God finally leaves you alone.
and then, start to rot... |
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