Lattice

Lattice                             11/16/2017

Against all the odds

Of eternity

I am here

An insurmountable

Improbability

Of endless combinations. 

But here we are

And, we are

Most certainly

Not an accident

Or a mistake.

Unlikely as can be

But not because

We earned it

And not because
We deserve it.

It was in a dream

That he took my hand

And Lifting me up

Underneath his wings.

Plucking me out

Of all that I knew

So that I could learn

And grow. 

I asked

And I accepted

But I still

Did not know

Much less understand. 

I had not yet

Felt the dagger

And I had not yet

Tasted blood.

Long before

The fevered nights

Shivering under

A black blanket

High above a dark abyss.

But how can anyone

Be sure

Until they also

Have suffered

Betrayal and cruelty

Humiliation and shame.

But it is that same suffering

That awakens the soul

The most misunderstood gift

And priceless treasure.

Liars multiply

When threatened

And a wounded animal

Is a vicious killer. 

If only

It were ignorance

Then the innocent

Could learn

But what we face

If far worse

Than blindness.

Hating babies

And laughing

At the dying

Dreaming of murder

For you and for me. 

The tide is high

And the fruit is low

Heavily laden

With death

And deception. 

Ripening in the sun

The world shudders

Under the weight

Of sin, Satan

Corruption, and lies.

Not a minute late

And not a second too soon

The inevitable end

Already written

And already done.  

Triple Hung

Triple Hung           11/9/2017

Each and every

Any and all

Not country for the hated

Surrounded, atomized

The few and the dead.

All of it on purpose

And all of it by design

To close every mouth

And bend every neck. 

More than willing

To sacrifice millions

Stacked on the ash heap

Of collectivist horror. 

With blood and leather

And mechanized death

The broken cogs

Are the end

Of the nightmare.

Those who lie

Will never tell the truth

Doubled over

And doubled down

Up to their necks

In evil.

The who serve

Satan

Seek a perversion of justice

The kind spawned by violence

And guttural hatred. 

See them jump

And see them scream

Exploding with rage

And outlandish accusations.

The window is closing

But the door is about to open

As the astounding truth emerges

Worse than we ever knew.

Watch yourself

And watch your family

Lest any of us be savaged

By wounded beast

Cornered and deadly. 

If we never

If we never               11/1/2017

If you haven’t been forgotten

Then how can you ever

Truly remember?

What it feels like to try

And what it feels like to lose. 

If you were never a friend

Then you might not remember

What it feels like to be betrayed

And die in the rain.

And If I had not truly loved

With all of my heart

Then I would still be blind

Never once broken

And gasping for breath. 

And we had not been poor

The we could never be rich

With holes in our heels

And holes in our teeth. 

And how could I forgive

If I had never been accused

Watched for every flaw

And savaged with lies. 

If you have never robbed

Then it is hard to receive

The undeserved blessing

Of glorious contentment. 

To know a true victory

Then you must also

Know defeat

The bitter agony of loss

And drowning in blood. 

And if a man should grow

Then he must also pay

Either now or later

The debt of his errors

Through humility and truth. 

For nothing is worse

Than to win by deceit

Further and further away

From introspection

And shame.

Coddled at every point

As only the weak receive

The masters of manipulation

And swindling greed. 

With never any use

For questioning or forgiveness

Giving only to receive

And loving only to steal. 

Rewarded for evil

And persistently duplicitous

The swindler will keep swindling

Until the very end. 

Let them go on

And let them go deep

Pulling at the slack

For all that they can. 

Farther and farther from you

And farther and farther from me

Blind to God

Fully guilty

And doubly dead