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Look and see, it is all there if you are willing?

Door Nail

Door Nail                           6/26/2018

Dead as a door nail

Hanging from the nob

The calling card of Satan

For all who dare. 

At what price?

Did they seek power

And for what treasure?

Did they sell their soul.

Innocent and pure

The children of the lamb

Plucked out

And slaughtered

For power and fame. 

For a man without conscience

Nothing is below

Nor beyond

All things allowable

To get what you want.

Covered up

And covered over

They blame others

For what they have done.

Screaming and abusing

The honest and the truthful

The sick and demented

Beasts of the field.

So now is the time

To decide what you are

A predator or a protector

A murderer

Or a saint. 

Today as in all days

They show us

Who they are

For those that scream the loudest

Hide guilt in their heart. 

Hateful vicious

Jealous and vengeful

Burning up

With death in their eyes. 

For those who read

Know the final ending

Time is not

On their side. 

Victory assured

Even for the lost

And even

For the dead. 

I looked

Look and See                     6/21/2018

Did you see it yet?

The undeniable pattern

Of reality

Staring at you

And staring at me. 

I heard it all

The greatest lies

Over and over again

But there was only

Just one problem

Reality.

Experience is by far

The greatest lesson

We can learn

The repeated statistics

Over time. 

The more you see

The more you know

For those who bother

To seek

And see.

The beaten

And the bloodied

The raped

And the abused.

The dead eyes of hatred

Blank and soulless

Everywhere you look

Like predators

Searching for food. 

On the bus

And on the street

In every doorway

All the clerks

And all the drivers.

No one dares speak it

The horrible truth

All of it on purpose

And all of it by design. 

Violent fools

Are easily manipulated

Expendable foot soldiers

Who believe

What they are told. 

Useful as a shovel

To lie and steal

Outnumbering us all

And waiting to kill.  

Unable to question

And unwilling to learn

Acting out on primal emotion

Jealousy and hate. 

But if you are honest

Then you might also know

What it feels like to try

And lose. 

Burned by someone else’s fire

And nothing but ashes

On the floor

An unpleasant reminder

Of greed and betrayal. 

How many?

Have also gone

The same as them

And the same as me.

Alive and dead

On a three dimensional screen

The hopes and the dreams

Lost along the way. 

I belong somewhere else

A place that I hardly got to see

Sold for a song

Long ago

And far away. 

If only we knew

All that was at risk

Then maybe

We could have avoided

All that useless pain. 

I was found not worthy

And I was judged incomplete

A deeply flawed man

Weighed down

With raw emotion.

But I was so much more

Than even I ever knew

The broken healed

And the lowly

Revealed. 

We who did not seek suffering

Had it come anyway

Crushed in the spirit

But raised up

By God. 

Ordinary people  

Will do extraordinary things

For with every disappointment

There is a greater opportunity. 

I did not know that then

For I had barely scratched the surface

The unintended accident

Of a million unrelated events. 

All of this comes together

To join us at last

The rag tag denizens

Of a world

Turned upside down. 

I am here

For a larger reason

And so also are you

The gift

And the gifted.

Take it now

And swallow it down

Deep inside

The spark

And the fire.

Let the good go on

Surviving till the end

No longer troubled

And no longer in tears. 

Deep Down

Deep Down                 6/20/2018

Gutshot and down

Dead beneath the grass

Feet in the water

And anchored to the past. 

Time can be neither

Right nor wrong

Because good and also evil

Are changeless points

We follow,

Or we ignore.

Blood and lots of it

Dripping from the mouth

And especially the hands

The fiendish few

Sucking off the many. 

Numberless are the victims

Either old and undefended

Or young and vulnerable

Trafficked in all directions

For every kind of horror. 

Eating and drinking

The vampire and the cannibal

Their feet dipped in blood

And feasting in hell. 

They scream in public

And they cry crocodile tears

Gnashing their teeth

And hissing with hatred.

They hate you

And they hate me

Willing to use anyone

Just to get

What they want. 

Louder and louder

And ever more violent

All of it over money

And absolute power. 

Long ago sold

And long ago lost

Dead in the heart

And a slave to Satan. 

They cry out about the children

But they have murdered many

Wishing worse for me

And also for you. 

Let it all come out

The truth

And the whole truth

All of it

All the way back.  

Brought out

Into the light

And exposed for all

Burning forever

And remembered

No more.