Lay

lay your head on love, the pillow

that gives meaning,

though it scares your soul to trust implicitly,

fearing hurts, rejections,

causing scarrings.

it’s only life unfolding as we breathe.

 

lay your trust in love,

though sometimes it’s unfounded,

misplaced, born to die the fearful death.

options, all alone,

mistrust surrounding,

steal the life, the essence of each breath.

 

lay your heart full wide,

be open to the answers

that love and trust combined can only give.

nothing close comes near to all it offers,

nothing more fulfils life,

nor lets us know we live.

 

lay your heart and soul in self,

and listen to the whispers,

coursing through your blood, urging yes.

yes to life, to love,

to trust, to meaning,

yes to all these gifts with which we’re blest.

 

By Actions Known

Pleasantries cannot convey a meaning,

Nor gossip give a truth to unknown scene, but

Words spoken, in a casual conversation,

May reveal the answers, yet ungleaned.

Foreign posturings from pulpit powder heartbeats,

Crumble surfaces where depths are scarce,

Haloed halls and floors with no communion

Question qualities too oft found rare.

Florid fools, in anger, gesture wildly,

Bitterness and vengeance may be cause,

Angelic chambers, enter they, unfearing,

Despite the fact we’re cautioned, there, to pause.

Until the truth reveals all that’s unanswered,

Innocence, not guilt, must be presumed,

By actions, and in time, we’ll know whose hearts are purer,

Accusers or the one who is now annexed, grief consumed.

We know by words plus actions where a heart lives,

We know by shock and awe supporting reason,

We know by trust, intrinsic estimation

That we know a soul, a man born for all seasons.

Com/pl/ex/it/y

c/a/t

chop, chop, chop, chop it into pieces,

put it back together like a jigsaw.

cl/a/p

chop, chop, chop, chop it into pieces,

put it back together like a jigsaw.

m/ea/n/ing/s

chop, chop, chop, chop it into pieces,

put it back together like a jigsaw.

poetry

chop, chop, chop, chop it into pieces,

put it back together like a jigsaw.

Life.