Oh Love, My Delight

Oh love, my delight
Muse of mind
The thought of you warms
And chills me at once
It thrills me to think
Instills your image
In my will to remember
Though so far away you may be

Oh love, my delight
Muse of my mind
Your gentle assurance
Of my all consuming desire
Crushes disturbance and ire
Entrancing my soul
Allotting my dole
Securing my role by your side

Oh love. My delight
Muse of my mind
Your lingering fragrance
Is slowly dissipating
My courageous resolve
Is ever emaciating
In three little words
I miss you

Chasing The Horizon

i wrote this on the plane coming back from Taiwan...


Sunset chaser fearing twilight

Fleeing land to soar above

A metal beast, who dares to take flight

Leaving Home, forsaking Love



Haloed horizon, a sleepy frown

Turning my world upside down

A world apart from all I know

My trepidation starts to grow



Rows and rows of foreign faces

All flocking to the same destination

Twill never reach but still it chases

Trying to defy creation

Peace Giving Rain

Stranded in my own mind, I’ve been lonely for a long time
Carrying the weight of the world
I keep coming to these places with the same old empty faces
Looking for a touch to heal my heart
Just when I think I’ll break down on the floor and I can’t take it anymore

The rain pours down on my head
The rain pours down and washes through my soul
The rain pours down and gives me what I need
Cuz I got nothing left to bleed
When everything is not as it should be
The rain pours down

Feeling like a shadow and there’s no one who can tell how
Ever breath is labored when I speak
But there’s a God who knows my sad plight
And He came one day to make right
Carrying the sins of the world
Just when I think, there’s no hope left in me and this is all I’ll ever be

The rain pours down on my head
The rain pours down and washes through my soul
The rain pours down reminding me He’s near
And I’ve got nothing left to fear
When there’s nothing I can see past my own tears
The rain pours down

And when I try so hard to do it on my own
Then I stumble and fall and I find myself alone
When the rain pours down it reminds me again
That God is holding out His hand

And if I grab His hand he will lead me through life
And when I mess up again He’ll pull me up and hold me tight
When the rain pours down it gives me peace
And it’s like He’s talking just to me

When the rain pours down on my head
The rain pours down and washes through my soul
The rain pours down reminding me He’s near
And I’ve got nothing left to fear
When there’s nothing I can see past my own tears
The rain pours down

A little Morning Prayer

Good Morning God,
May my day be filled with thoughts of you
And may your grace transform my life anew
In all I say and all I do
God bless my heart, and others too.
Amen

i wrote this little prayer and taped it to the bottom of my bunk bed so that it's the first thing i see/read when i wake up to remind me of who i am and whose i am.

Carving Scars

Carving scars into my arms

Hearts for those
Love’s been torn
From

Stars for those
Dreaming out
Some

Nearer still
Nearly we’ll

Keep all things
Bound and gagged
Smiles sag
Drowning piles of
Ash

Flames for those
Whose flames are
Spent

Rainbows for those
Whose colors
Bent

Nearer still
Nearly we’ll

Keep all things
Written one by one
Neatly placed
Or jagged traced
Tooth and claw will
Gnash

this one is hard to explain. its one of those u either get or u dont

Strangled Hope

I’m grasping for a thread
Clinging to a strand
Dangling precariously
A grain amidst the sand

Voices screaming in my head
Perhaps a drink will drown them out
Dulling senses
Cleaving doubt

Pin pricked skin
Neatly sliced through
Might distract me
And send me to

A far off place
A distant space
Where I need never see that face
That taunts me as I sleep
And watches me when I wake
Just waiting for my soul to take
My heart to break
My life to shake

There’s a quaking in the way I speak
With cracking calluses on my feet
Drowning in my search for air
The tear rips further still
Until it stops

i wrote this over Christmas break. i was in a pretty dark place but im not there anymore

Let It Fall

Every time I see your face
It’s like I’m
Watchin you from outer space
Cuz you’re so far away

We’ve been

Goin down this lonely road
And im just
Tired of seein you on yer own
When I’m right by your side

Why do you push me out
And hold it in
Wont let me see
Your brokenness within

Just let it go
Let it fall
Let the pieces of your broken heart
Fall right into my arms
Hold nothing back
Don’t keep me at the place where
I can’t help at all
Just let it fall

Every time I look at you
Im tryin’ta
Figure out just what to do
Cuz your’re so different now

You used ta

Be there when I needed you
And you would
Hold me when you wanted to
But that’s all changed somhow

Why do you push me out
And hold it in
Wont let me see
Your brokenness within

Just let it go
Let it fall
Let the pieces of your broken heart
Fall right into my arms
Hold nothing back
Don’t keep me at the place where
I can’t help at all
Just let it fall