The Power of the Tongue

The Power of the Tongue

Words thrown carelessly across the front page
cut so deeply
it reaches vital veins.
Puffed up arrogance
can only relate in disdain.
You grow tall or short
depending on the blessing or curse
uttered flippantly
to your face.

Words can hurt
words can kill.

She spews her truth
god complex
her words digs her own grave
her power made impotent
by falsehood uttered in a rage
of hurt and torment.

Words can hurt
words can kill.

I fight the battle uphill
to reach my way to the top
so that I can grab and come back
with the words that will combat those sharp knives
uttered outside the vortex of time.

Words can hurt
words can kill

Sticks and stone
can break your bones
but words
cut much deeper.
They rob your soul
of joy untold
and makes a rich life
so much cheaper.

Words can hurt
words can kill.

Or do they just kill?

On Being Saved

On Being Saved

I got baptized at nineteen
But God is just now saving me.
The water that fateful day
did not clense me
but hard won sorrow like a river
washes away the dirt and decay.
I stepped on the world stage
almost drowned
but God pulled me back
by my kinky hairs and counted each strand
to make sure they were still there.
Now I must come correct.

I really tried to be perfect,
but with each stroke
a piece broke
and the wood had to be refashioned.
Pillaged by too much Arrogance
left half dead by the way side
I now wear the cloak of humility.

Nineteen years,

I was wet behind the ears,
now I am driven by a burning Holy fire.
Disrobed ,
Transformed,
I stand changed by my perfet imperfections.

The Value of a Seed

The Value of a Seed

Look in my hand,
what you see is a seed.
This seed I hold though must be freed 
to live in its potential.

This seed,
will become a tree
that will one day bear fruits
and those fruits too
will also have seeds - 
potential trees,
if only you can see
more than what is before you
if only you can see
not what is 
but what could be.

Now it is tiny and useless it seems
hard and of little significance even.
But if you plant
and water it,
this seed will exceed
even your vision of what it can be.

The Coconut

The Coconut 

Like manna
it fell
a fruit offered in perfect love
fit to feed the multitude
sent from above.
Living water
to quench the driest of throat.
It flowed plentifully
cracked just so
so I may go
and get its life essence
to relieve the distress of my soul.
As the clear, pure, sweet water slide down
it left a permanent trail
of such comfort
that now I can exhale
receive many blessings only each sip can unfold. 

Choose Your Character

Choose Your Character

No author to write you in
or playwright to make you shine or dim
you can choose who you are 
from deep within.
You are your author, playwright and poet
you know your love language
and the code only you and only you
knowest.
In each chapter you choose your setting
VIP or the popular stand
only you can navigate either one
and decide who else will go along the stands.
The scenes may change
Living
eating
resting 
rejuvenating 
your Garden lands.
There you control the temperature
lighting, props and how the seasons arrange.
You are a literary craftsman
and your life is your masterpiece
so with it you must engage,

Control: What You Do

Control: What You Do

Can you shape the universe
with the thoughts of your mind
bend shapes out of shape
and suspend time?

Can you make the clouds
burst forth their tears
and wash away
all those wasted years?

Can you see beyond your tomorrows
make the future bright
and sing sweetlullabyes
that will let you wake up in light?

Can you forget those steps
that took you to hell
that made it necessary
for you to reprent?

Can you can you
change your world
by taking this bittersweet land
and mould them with your hands?

From A Quiet Place

From A Quiet Place

From a quiet place
discern and learn
process and unlearn
stop pleasing
start leading
never be led.
The enemy is in your head
you must vanquish it there
then without fear
leap from that quiet place
and brandish your Atlantis Spear.