If I say I Love You

If I say I love you
Does my love sound louder
Than a sounding brass or clanging cymbal?
Does my love move the mountains that
You face even a inch to the left?

If I say I love you
Can the waters quench it?
Can the floods drown it?
What does it take to kill it?
Persecution? Trials? Troubles? Riches?

If I say I love you
Is it a forever, lasting kind of love?
Am I being patient or just tolerating?
Do I hold a hand out to you when you fall?
Do I rejoice in truth or lean towards gossip?

If I say I love you
Do I hold a grudge against you,
For the thoughts I think you think?
Am I ready to let it all go
To heal? To forgive? To find peace?

If I say I love you
Am I ready to hear your side,
When our voices are raised in anger?
Am I blind to my faults,
When you show me a mirror?

If I say I love you
Can I bear the pain of loving
Hang for hours held up by rusted nails on wood?
Can I sacrifice anything, give anything,
And not seek for pity or praise?

If I say I love you, if I chose to love you
Let’s think beyond this ‘as myself’ business.
I chose to love like Love loves
Perfectly,ready to lay down His life for me
Bearing all things, hoping for the best in me

Fall of the Mighty

Big men often come from small places

Different milieu different faces

They were polished till they shone

Their helpers forgotten once on the throne

They discard all memories of care

Why should other’s problems they bear?

But soon ,too soon it’s all gone

Gone ,yes gone like the setting sun

And in shame they hide away

Until they meet their maker that day

And all pot bellies and expensive bags

Are shown as empty souls and filthy rags

Solitary Confinement

I sit here and remember
I remember the children laughing
As then ran in the fields
And their mother watching
As she went about her daily chores
Songs dancing in the air
Joy touching every heart
As they whistle tunes of glee

But then the screams begin
Blood curling sounds that
Fiercely drag them out of their utopia
It starts to rain ,angry droplets
That mix with the blood red earth
The thunder finds its harmony
With the gunshots over mercy pleas
The lightning provides the stage lighting

Sirens sound in the distance
Shadows of the night melt
Away , as I come out of hiding
Hands tremble as I pick up the sabre
That brought death to my door step
The blood forms a stream much like
The ones that flow from my eyes
Suddenly many hands descend on me

I sit here and remember
The way they looked at me
Their eyes screamed guilty
Screams much louder
Than my heart’s cries
They gathered to hear my case
But heard only the denials
Of a blood thirsty madman

So here I sit, alone with
My tears, my memories,
All that care to torture me
A shadow of a man that dreams
Of a life that never existed
Who is to say it did? None
For alone I sit, alone I cry
In my solitary confinement

The Pursuit of Happiness

Like comfortable apparel
And soothing music
Joy moves soft and alluringly
Clinging closely to us
Like sweet perfume

And yet we search
We search for happiness
That mirages before our eyes
Pretending, beckoning
But leaving our hearts empty

Still Euphoria teases
And giddiness jigs around
Our happy bubbles burst
Yet Joy eludes us
And so we pursue.

Champion from Crumbles

Ashes and dust are the words
Related to my being
I move on backwards
My progress unseen

Just when I think I can soar
The destroyer comes with a roar
Again and again I fail
Louder and louder I wail

Then like water to a thirsty tongue
My heart sings a new song
At last I am free
My future more than I can see

Thanks to my encounter
With my heart’s master
He took away my shame
Gave me a new name
CHAMPION

Sister Stranger

Maybe we have known each other forever
And I understand you a bit too much
Maybe the conversations grew shorter
Without our noticing ,without our approval

Maybe we should have apologised a few times
Instead of smoothing it over ,building it up.
Maybe our little fights and arguments
Are the building blocks for who we are now.

Maybe they have changed , faces, friends
Everyone  revolved, changed, gone away
Maybe we have forgotten or mixed them up
Masks we put on for the outside world and reality

So correct me if am wrong
I know you didn’t change
You know I didn’t change
But did we ?

Those long ago fights we had
Pillars of sibling rivalry
Now a distant comforting memory
Sis, where did we go ?