Fallen from grace, our heart seeks expansion
That we once again see God face-to-face
Cyclic pain and joy cause agitation
Pursuit of happiness, unending chase
Memory erased, life puzzles we lace
Following our ego spawned suggestion
To get ahead, we thereby brace to race
Fallen from grace, our heart seeks expansion
One day we get to point of exhaustion
Surrendering thought, relying on grace
Stillness and silence our meditation
That we once again see God face-to-face
Recognising stagnation as disgrace
Enter the vibrant void of cessation
Fears and desires, gradually deface
Cyclic pain and joy cause agitation
At ease like the breeze; earth a play station
Detachedly flowing at an easy pace
Ceasing to offer any reaction
Pursuit of happiness, unending chase
Each offered experience, we embrace
Choosing vibrant life of celebration
Each ego impression, to root we trace
That there no longer be separation
Fallen from grace
15-June-2021
fighting for rights
that are god given
it's a jungle out there
all that bitterness and hate
what is wrong with a world
where so much evil lurks
greed at its heart
it's dog eat dog
and I'm a vegetarian
we could be in the garden of eden
if we all just got along but no ~
it's a jungle out there
AP: 3rd place 2021
Have You
Fallen From Grace
By: Tom Wright
5/26/99
Within your love
let me once more abide.
Your face from me, Dear Lord,
please don't hide.
For since the time I erred
and fell from Grace.
I have not Lord, until now,
sought your face.
Those things in life
that wrongfully I have done.
I'll lay at your feet Lord,
one by one.
Then when at last
you've let me have my say
I pray you'll place my feet once more
on your straight and narrow way.
How you I would like to tell
that I you find exquisite
and would move the stars
to make our fates agree.
How I live alone, predestined
to fall from women's grace
and to rise again with new loves,
though I hope to find a love
eternal with me forever,
to tell her I love her,
and to bring heaven's wings
to guide and protect her.
How I her would love with all my heart
till the day I die in love with her,
till death's grips takes me away from her
rather than capriciousness.
Wondering around the
cemetery a child's doll held
close to my breast my aching
heart shatters more and more
as I ask myself, couldn't this
all just be some sickening
nightmare, that I am about
ready to wake from?
I yearn to feel my child's warm
hand closed tightly round my
own, then perhaps I'll feel a bit
more alive and not so empty
and dead?
I look to the sky and see the
clouds are a sinister grey, so I
know it is in fact true... I am
an angel fallen from grace left
in the ashes of memories of
what was and what should of
been.
I crumple to my knees not
even giving a damn that my
dress shall be ruined in the
mud and pouring rain.
I look to the heavens and
scream until my voice is
nothing, but a distant memory
and all thats left is a fiery raw
ache of what once was my
voice.
I lay the doll down upon a
grave, bright green with spring
and the sun's gentle kisses and
press my trembling lips to the
cold marble of a headstone and
whimper indistinct words of
how if I could I'd give my own
life only to let you live once
more.
We live in a world we didn't create
We were born into it
Into this violence and hate
We grew up with poverty
And breathed the pollution
And even if we could
It still shouldn't be us
To find a solution
They say we're the future
They're all a disgrace
Mankind was once divine
But we've fallen from grace
Life can feel oh so empty
when you feel alone.
How did I come to wander
so far away from my home?
Thoughts I possess
have stolen my faith.
Please help me Almighty
for I've fallen from grace.
Blanketing the dawn
Another cloud falls from grace
Prideful cumulus
Thirty days of grace
Before you see
A more burdened look among my face
Yes I have fallen from grace
Can you see
The burgundy upon my face?
Seems I have fallen from grace
I’m here
Perhaps I’ll take a cowards way out
Perhaps I’ll die
Awaken later afterlife
And wonder what it was about
Kiss this mask of mystery
Postponed fate
To provide a flawless delivery
Suffer for a finer conclusion
The ending clause in my chivalry
A dawn looked upon
The dawn we are here to see
A tragedy
A romance
Look after me
And into the sun we will dance
Only thirty days from grace
Before you see
A more burdened look
Amongst my face
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