Spoken-Word

The Bride’s Song (From the Pool) – Audio

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My Love is coming to me.

My Love’s thoughts are only of me.

My Love is coming to me.

Love assured, doubts evaporate next to the fire that is my Love.

Tender and intimate words of comfort still my restless heart.

The plans are fixed but I must wait.

My Love is coming to me.

Sweet longing deepens my desire.

And I am content, for I can see no other.

Whose shape, whose fragrance, whose taste fits the longing of my Soul?

None but my Love.

So I wait and the waiting is ardor perfected in faith.

I trust in the heart of my Beloved.

Now, passing fancies are smoke on the breeze.

Distractions vanish, clinging diminishes to an hushed expectancy.

The power of the imposter vanishes like fog in the bright morning sun,

When I imagine the joining with my Love.

I can wait.

I will wait.

For now I know the answer to my Soul’s Longing.

My Love is coming to me.

 

Come out my Darling (Audio)

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Where are You?

I know you are

I feel You

I have sensed your presence from before the foundations

I have known You always

I have searched for You in waking and in dreaming

Restless unrequited longing

Some times frantic

Others less so

Desperate need cuts like a razor or

Less, a restless slight dissatisfaction, boredom

Come out my Darling

Why are you far from me

Come out of the darkness

That I may see you and know your form

I would study you and know

The sound of your voice

The sweet fragrance of you

I would hear your thoughts and be enriched

I would see through your eyes and learn of me

My Soul where are You? (Audio)

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My Soul . . . my Soul . . . where are you

I am alone, desolate, and lost

Divided, hollow, terrified, and torn asunder

How is it that we were ever parted

What pattern, design, or devise perpetrated this

On Me, on You, on Us

I truly did not know

I was foolish and ignorant

Most wretched in the cleverness of the show

I lived from day to day

All the while you called

You beckoned and warned

But I in my folly was blind

Too stupid to comprehend your most simple need

To stupid to understand that your needs were also my own

Anger Rises (Audio)

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Anger rises

Impotent

Unfocused

It surrounds him like a shield

And energy force to protect and warn

It morphs its shape to suit circumstance

At once thoughtful, empathetic, humorous, kind, or distant

No matter

The form does not change the essence

Anger birthed and energized

Contained in the ferment of the man’s soul

The fruits of his spirit have been pressed

The heat, the anger is not the point

It is merely the by-product of the change

Too little heat – The process stalls

Too much – The wine is ruined

Awake (Audio)

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(Done like an old protest song i.e. Marvin Gaye or early Isley Bro. – Reggae?)

The great Uncle is not your friend.
He would be your master.
And talking heads just keep on talking.
Don’t confuse them with your pastor.

Distraction provides just temporary satisfaction.
But your heart knows the Truth. Your heart knows the Truth.
Awake from the incantation, seek the Incarnation.
The Light shines in the darkness.
Let It shine on you.

Your creed is not the journey.
Though It might lead to journeys end.
Seek the answer to the riddle.
From walking Death to waking Life transcend.

Distraction provides just temporary satisfaction.
But your heart knows the Truth. Your heart knows the Truth.
Awake from the incantation, seek the Incarnation.
The Light shines in the darkness.
Let It shine on you.

Hold lightly to your strength.
And all you think you know.
For the Light shines in the darkness.
And it is in weakness that Grace will grow.

BRIDGE
Caesar has no love for you, you’re a number on a page.
Doctrine is a guide, but its just trappings on the stage.
Life is calling you to wake up (now). Shake off the webs they weave.
Step into Reality, become more than you (can) conceive.

Distraction provides just temporary satisfaction.
But your heart knows the Truth. Your heart knows the Truth.
Awake from the incantation, seek the Incarnation.
The Light shines in the darkness.
Let It shine on you.