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Looking down the years From that first day when We knew. But how could we foresee All that the future Held in store? Dreams lost and battles won. Hearts bursting with joy Among unnumbered tears. Knowing as we know now Would we...

It seems I’ve cried this tear beforeAnd felt this ache within.Once, a thousand times or more,And here I am again. Familiar grief on my soul preys,Old fears and doubt assail.Creeping comes the grim malaise,Courage begins to fail. Darkness closes in about me,Hounds...

What did you see? Peering into the darkness, what did you see through the valley of shadow? What did you see, blinking through the blood-like sweat stinging your eyes? When they came in the night and led you bound beyond the point of no return, what captured your...

Waves Of sadness Beating upon the shoreline Of my soul Ceaselessly.   Bones Crushed to Powder neath relentless blows Of hammer On Anvil.   Lips Cold as stone Murmuring and back-biting Forever And always.   Eyes Dry as ice Glaring into the darkness...

True smile. Last mile.   Babe coo. Morn dew.   Echo. First snow.   Child laugh. Cut grass.   Sunrise. Love sigh.   Birdsong. Deer fawn.   Sunset. Rain wet.   Hold hands. Beach sand.   Star fall. Gull call.   First steps....

And I looked and, behold, I saw fire upon the mountain. And the fire raged and rolled down and tumbled and All were consumed but none perished. And the brightness of its burning, terrible and fierce, None could withstand. And the whole earth was covered with flame....

Ah, failure, my old friend. How sweet to greet you yet again, To feel once more your cold embrace And gaze into your familiar face.   With smug contempt for all our past, Each time we part I believe the last And strive so hard to leave you behind, But doggedly...

Blossom of spring, Summer’s full bloom, Richness of autumn, Winter’s plenitude.   Blissful routine, Calamity unforeseen.   Hellious hatchet Severing life from limb Trunk and root; Like heaven’s hammer Falls the hoar frost.   Crystalline tentacles...

Staring slack-jawed Into death’s gaping maw, Thought I heard the reaper’s call. Are You?   Toes at the precipice, Yawning bottomless abyss, Thought I heard the serpent’s hiss. Are You?   Body count still climbing, Hear those funeral bells chiming, Little...

There's a Song that sings of wondrous things. Eyes and heart well at the Joy it brings. Faint but clear, like a bell it rings… Away, away, away.   Familiar refrain, both blessing and bane, Make us to know Forever again, By faith longing so to exclaim... Your Way,...

Accolades and silver tarnish. Epitaphs and flowers fade. One's hero, another's villain, Truth lies cold in the grave.   Bonds of long fellowship broken. Bands of true brotherhood shorn. Arrows swift loosed hastily. Ties that bind now torn.   Sure hands...

I AM. Alone. I am alone. In the vacuous emptiness of infinite space. I AM. Alone. I am alone. Miniscule. Before the One who measures eternity. I AM. Alone. I am alone. Silenced. Before the One who declares into nothingness, "Be." I AM. Alone. I am alone. In darkness....

I sang o'er a hero's grave today.   Is this how it was when they laid Beowulf to rest?   Stalwart and dauntless, He knew nothing of the warfare of violence, But in the battle of Obedience, He was master and champion. Obedience he learned, as did our...

A great light has gone out. A great light has gone out in the world and we are, all of us, diminished. But that this light shone whatsoever, we are altogether blessed. For this was the most accurate facsimile of the Original Brilliance encountered in this temporal...