Category: Poetry

GUY:Who would pay to keep the owner’s kids in school?Who’d sip and drink before the carafe cools?Who’d pay the wages for these brewing fools?If I didn’t drink coffeeNothing like a cappuccino to start the dayAn afternoon espresso takes the blues awayFinish the evening with a mocha or latteHey, everybody needs coffee Miserable souls line up…

Stretch to the point of explicit rendLife’s candy squishes me back again Getting tougherSmashingGrinding tougher Pulled apart once through cold spacePushed back in one by sacred grace TougherYou make me tougherAnd all I know is I believeI believe AgainTorn apart by life againSometimes by just the average daySome days by Your hand All I know…

Keep me away from debatesFor how can I understand You?How can I comprehend Your ways?How can I truly know when You call?I have no knowledge on my lipsNo wisdom lingers in my mindI admit my foolishnessNo great testimony exists on my lipsI comprehend nothingMy brethren have it all downWhile My understanding is nilI silence my…

Help me, O Lord, for I am coldMy insides are frozenMy joints creak with painMy candle is snuffed outWall of frost have encircled my heartMy blood thickens at it coolsThe poison of death is upon meThe messenger of the Enemy has cursed meIn all my muscled I am weakI have no strengthMy heart pumps slush…

She walked into the room just nowTurned a glance toward meYet refused to look me in the eyesOf her discontinued affectionYesterday’s old newsShe turns and walks to the other sideAttached by hand is another oneHe scans me, snarling,“So, this is who I’m proceeding,He doesn’t look so tough”And I keep my eyes grounded in sorrow So…

You showed how small I amRevealed my inner weaknessBut through YouI still have strengthAnd yet I’m dyingI fear I’m failingAnd slipping further from youI’m losing You I can’t live to Your standardsI can’t make Your markNo matter how hard I tryDevils and demons prevent meWar rages within meMy chest no longer beatsMy heart has frozen…