Keep Your Distance
Keep your distance from my choices
You, with the staff of valor,
With the staff of all-truths
Deem me a simple fool
Dipping my wavering feet
In the pools of this ghastly world
I do not love to be in this place,
On the edge of conclusion
The brink of union and seclusion both,
To the last upheavals of verdict
Did I wish for these uncertainties?
And yet I chose it!
Asking for answers
Left open for me
Do you truly understand what it is that I face?
You call my pursuits frivolous attachments,
Immaterial accessories that must be,
As quickly as they have burdened me,
Disposed
I call them Blessings,
I call it Trust, and I call it Faith,
A sure love of which I chose!
Have you attained the eyes of God?
Do you know what He knows?
I don’t
Keep your distance from my choices
You, with your pains on display
Over and over calling me to stay
Look into my mirror
Do you see my dreams?
They thrive when hope and acceptance stand
Do you see her smiling?
Or do you see her failing?
Is she alone, and happy?
Or is she with you,
Bound in chains of never-happening?
You call it love’s desperate plea,
I call the sound,
Wanderlust
Can you truly love me,
And yet press me to stay?
As the winds blow my heart to Belong?
I envision my life with the words I have embroidered
Upon the waters of flourishment, far away from any doubt
I trust in the God that made us,
To lead me
To lead you
My tears run freely upon the hands that created this
Upon the salty moment, from pain to fulfillment
I trust in the legs God gave me
To walk my soul in the direction of the sun
He knows my heart belongs there
Just as you are sure I am a fool
If you care oh so deeply,
If you believe in the path that I choose to walk,
Keep your distance from my choices
Choose to free me
Choose to see me
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