Cease

Your run through the darkness
Fearing the deepest shadows
Lashing out at all that breathes
Trusting no eyes that meet your own

Do not force the sunlight
It gives the shadows strength
It lifts fallen faces to sight
It confirms your doubt

Daughter of the day
No longer abide
In the dominion of darkness

Hurt brings the fallen
Closer to the depths
Fear lets slip fingers of reason
Flee the whispers of your tongue

Seek out the holy star
Forget the terror and despair
You cannot leave them behind
Forget they are there

Son of the light
No longer abide
In the dominion of night

Slashes and scourging have brought no light
Pain lances no wounds
Pride and vanity are all encompassed
Until you relinquish death

The Lifted Veil

I have prayed in my sleep
These countless miles.

And I have found I cannot stop.
Cannot find the words not to say.

I have chased this thing all along
That I knew I could not escape.

O lift me above this tiny sphere.
This place I know too well.

Give my soul its immersion.

Rain down this peace
That I have only scented.

And take my hand.
For I am blind, walking these streets.

And I cannot hear your voice
For all the mindless words circling me

And your touch will clear this mist.

Bring to me images
Of these elemental things.

Your gifts, your paths, not mine.

This is not mine to do.
This walking, this leaping, flying.

But your filling, your calling, your touch.

And let them flow from here,
Let me not lose the words to say.

Emptiness and Lies

Two walk on the causeway
The narrow way cannot contain
Any distance
Still they walk

I wish you loved me for what I have done
But what have I done?
My sin kills your love

I wish you loved me for what I love
But that too is what I’ve done
My sin kills your love

I am not what you should love
My pride says this is insanity
My sin says I am enough

How easily I lie
To me
And you

The ice lies thick
Thick with emptiness
For we do not love
What we should

I will recant my lies
So tomorrow I will not
Be the same as today

Or

Oh yes I will
Still lying to me
Just as I am right now

O’ Lord, come quickly
For I am not enough for me
Or much of anything

Forgive me
I must rest in my Lord’s rest
For that is all I have
And you too.