practice

Practice
2-24-14


Yeah, it practiced and prospered
Casting down our first faith
Like figs for the stranger
To yet gather beneath our fruit trees of plenty
Praying for the next compositions of twenty
By reason of transgression
We yet offer our daily sacrifice
Yet to be cleansed and justified
Where I wish to God that it were night
I loved you then in the seasons of my midnight oil
And still I love you now
In all that is real...




















Letting Go
2-24-14


Prehistoric sepulchers are the consistency
Of our paying of respects
To those we are to let go of
Giving loved ones back to our God
Where all that we need know
Is that such a God is our love
Yet in my deep sleep
Still dreaming of riding my bicycle
To towns north of here
Going the extra mile
According to self constraint
So understand, O Son of man
In seeing the picture
Without applying the paint...


















Chasten
2-24-14


Despising not his chastening
Taking stripes upon our backs
Hating not this discipline
According to this perseverance
That the average believer  yet lacks
Being not conformed to the image of this world
Pinning up photographs of myself on south walls with thumb tacks
Needing rules and boundaries so that we might live long
Thinking on what is right and disregarding all that is wrong
Despising not this chastening
Of which is part of the relationship
Just as well as the love that doth follow...








Bright
2-24-14


Living for today
Yeah, it's going to be a beautiful one
In fact it already is
Playing Dylan archives
To inspire new rhymes in my rambling
Living for today and the sunshine far from being prudent
Or even chaste
Knowing never to get wise in haste
Living for today
Yes, it's going to be a beautiful one
In fact it already is...










By Faith
2-24-14


By faith we understand
That the worlds are framed by the Word of God
According to the things seen
In contrast with what is still invisible
By way of our senses
Getting a firm grip upon these reigns
Like the harness by which we can tell the horses and their mighty pull
At the starting gate of another race
Where by faith we understand
That the worlds were framed by the Word of God
We read again today
Thanking him for all that is real....