The price He paid for me
was more than precious,
a gift of grace so golden
and glorious.
A sinless substitude for a
soul soiled and sinful,
Oh what a leverage for a
loser that was lawful!
I was in bondage for my
baseless bargains,
my cheap choices led me
into cheerless chains.
He crushed the cage, I am
more than conquerors,
Oh the endless evasion of
my enormous errors!
I was a weary worm in a
world so worthless,
wielding His word, I have
worth for my weakness.
He saved me from the
stigma of being a sinner.
and wooed me to His ways,
I am now a winner.
Copyright. February 2013.
Adeleke Adeite.
what you see
is me
so let me be
some call me sam
TAKE ME AS
I AM
Why do people see me as mean
I try to be loving the best I can
I try to give as but I feel nothing but unclean
I feel people find me nothing but a strawman
With no heart and no feeling
Why do I need to prove that I love
Why should people take me as concealing
When all I want is to do is provide love
You left me, oh so, long ago
my baby, my only child
before I wanted to let go
you'd said your first good bye.
For you had so much work to do
you needed space to grow,
and surely could not do so
with a fretting mother in tow.
My son you walk beside me now
rejoined, grown up, a man,
trying to explain to me,
you're doing the best you can.
You didn’t mean to cause me pain
such anxiety and fear
all of those small good byes
were just meant to get you here.
The whole world we gave to you
and it took a quite awhile
to see the sights and sounds
around to, wander and compile.
Now, you are searching for a wife
hope one day to have a child,
and as you walk beside me
we ponder your learning style.
How each of us has our own path
which parents can’t walk for them.
How children grow to be men
that’s what good byes were for then.
Contest: The Second Hand Emotion
Poet: Debbie Guzzi
*Love of a child....emotions sadness /anxiety
not so much anymore,not so much right at the door,not so much a you and me ,not
so much we wernt ment to be...a mistake the act that took place when i saw your
face wasnt fate but disaster with lives at steak..you could be more then you chooz
to be,you could be more but you wont thats why you no longer see me,you did this
but go on blame me...just a broken path leading me to places ive longed to see.but
if not for you id never known the strength with in to start agian..i wish i could
atleast call you freind,i dont hate you thou maybe i should...if you would please just
go away its to painfull to watch as you destroy yourself.its not these words you
should fear its your chance at life and how your simply watching it disapeer....
I need you to look me right in the eye
Tell me the truth from the heart and don’t try to lie
Give me the respect I deserve and don’t look away
If I don’t hear the answers I want then Ill be on my way
I just need an acknowledgement but don’t tell me a story that’s bizarre
How can we trust each other if we don’t know the truth of who we are
Give me an explanation of what happened, a reason for what you did
Tell me the whole story so we can some how just close the lid
Don’t exaggerate it just the facts where when how and why
Let this be part of our past so we can wave it goodbye
I just need an acknowledgement but don’t tell me a story that’s bizarre
How can we trust each other if we don’t know the truth of who we are
You hesitate because you don’t know how I’ll react or what I will do
If you’re forth coming to me then your soul will once again be true
Understand God is watching you from heaven above
Be honest with me and yourself and I’ll forgive you and you’ll have my love
I just need an acknowledgement but don’t tell me a story that’s bizarre
How can we trust each other if we don’t know the truth of who we are
I walked a long time on this earth with blinkers on my eyes
When one day suddenly I was struck by a bolt from the sky
Hey you down there what do you think of yourself?
I’m going to take away your health and your wealth
I had strutted like a peacock and preyed like a panther
On the weak and the humble and on those who did’nt matter
Down went my scrips and I went broke
My heart could’nt take it and I got a stroke
Strapped to the bed, my body turned to lead
All I could wish for was to be dead
In my anguish I cried out aloud
Oh God if possible please lift up this dark cloud
I am sorry it is to you I have caused utter grief
Please give me another chance, I’ll turn over a new leaf
God made me swallow a bitter pill indeed
To put aright all my misdeeds
But then He took away all my ills
And within me a new spirit instilled
if only I can stop time to see you once more before you dis spear away from you.
I want to hear the last the last words from you
but your so far away from me,the pain in my heart aches for endless love
the sorrow and the burden it has put me through
the peak of insanity that reach a pound me.
the tears of darkness and the shattered soul that aches for forgiveness
try not to remember the past,but the past repeats over and over again
once was insanity now its hell,the chains thats a bound me will be place on me
until the hands of time.
please forgive me
Kopastetic
Not even barely breathing chest thumping like a tamburine n
Trying to be decent
But the whole situation has my chest wheezing head pounding heart leaking for what a bloodclot reason.
The explanation was just weak why not admit defeat when got the speaking
It just ain't kosher if shoe was on the other foot I'd be bowled over tenderized n put in the George forman
roll-toaster-ry
Open dialect with open mindedness
Even said of how I'm understanding this
Even tho I was so heated I was shaking n
This isn't the end becuz it was turned around on me of past tense
I couldn't even believe this but it did
Get to that extent
Yet it made no sense I open up this hidden agenda that wouldn't have been exposed if I wouldn't have
looked for why my body had sleep kept from me ......peace
YOU DRAG ME THRU THE MUDD,PICK ME UP,AND REPEAT THE PROCESS.
YET,I CONTINUE TO STAND STRONG AS A STATUE.
BUT I CANT ACKNOWLEDGE MY PROGRESS.
YOU SAY THINGS YOU DONT MEAN...
LIKE YOU LOVE ME AND YOU'RE THERE
BUT IM WISE ENOUGH TO KNOW A MASK FROM THE SKIN THATS BARE...
YOU KNOW? THIS JUST DOESN'T SEEM FAIR...
BECAUSE IT SEEMS THAT YOU'VE WON...
UNTIL YOU REALIZE THAT A LADY NAMED,KARMA, HAS JUST BEGUN...
RATHER I DISPISE YOU OR NOT!
I PREY FOR MERCY UPON YOU.
THEY SAY SINS MAKE YOU BURN,
BUT LOOK AT WHAT THE CHILD OF GOD HAS TO GO THROUGH!
I'LL FORGIVE YOU....
THE DAY IM GONE..AND FROM WHERE I STAND THAT SEEMS LONG...
I'LL FORGIVE YOU...
WHEN YOU BECOME PURE...THE ESSENCE OF REAL.
I FORGIVE YOU BECAUSE I HAVE TOO..
OR ... I'M NO BETTER THAN YOU....
I FORGIVE YOU BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SOUL DO.
SO...I FORGIVE YOU......
One sin that annoys me most and takes me for a real ride,
Is when someone will not see their mistakes due to pride,
They will make you feel guilty and push every bit of blame,
Even when you showed love when they showed you shame.
Nothing makes one weep more and watering eyes like rain,
They never say I am sorry PUBLICALLY for causing you pain,
In this particular case I know I am right and this is very true,
But I will not stop writing poetry where I am because of you.
~~~~~~~
No one will listen
No one will hear
Can’t get it to stop
Just let it drop
I’m tired and confused
For once hear me out
To speak my mind
To get it all behind
Of all the times I’ve hated most
The regretful years
The difficult past
Can you please just let me pass?
Get it to go away
Out of my life
Out of my head
And just let me go to bed
Get back to the good times
That I wish I could have
That I am at now
So I can take a bow
To finish this show
The end of the play
The end of the story
To get me to my glory
I once used to pen from my heart, beautiful verses they were
Then my heart i no longer knew, my verses reflected the rival that kept me alive
I lived without it, it held my gift, my pen
The lights were on, no one was home, still i smiled and got by
Past days have brought me closer the person i was always afraid to know
I was scared to know him, his verse is so beautiful, it binds the mind with the heart
The tone of his voice makes images take to life within minds
He has always been with me, why did i deny him for so long
Today is so new, and so is the gift to come, my present
I know him now, his eyes are made of broken stars that feed on dreams
His voice is truly enchanting, he is a poet, his verse shakes my spirit
He holds my heart, slowly they both come to me in aid
I could never run away from them, for that poet i speak of is me
I am the verse that shakes souls, the verse that makes minds imagine dreams to be
Let the old days hold back the memories when i knew him not
I am eduardo, and the poet inside me is eddie together we are edward
From here and on i hold my pen, and my heart is with me once again
The battle is over between us, i love myself again
Fall from Heaven's arms,
land on her "half-sister".
Look through the garden's eyes.
Still, I miss her.
Let me crawl with nature
or fly with the stars.
Landing on the "half-sister"
won't take me very far.
Treat me not with shame,
cuddle with me, my pride,
because dignity will take you far,
but wrong can't easily calm the tide.
I beg with honesty
forbidden from her land of peace,
for she call me, not again.
Not even prayers she answer at the very least.
Kill not, my hope.
Kill not, my freedom,
but don't treat me wrong,
like Adam and Eve have done.
Take me with you,
for i fly with broken wings.
Grant me my soul,
with the words that sing.
what can i say
how did i end up this way
can i end it this day
doing everything i can wondering why he not looking
down at me as a women. All I nee is to pull away.
when i i'm gone out of my mine is to pray.
will i ever be o.k. cutting is not the answer it is what i feel
but that a habit i want them to heal.
no more cry
it want i want to try
i believe i can open my wings to fly my cutting
can not make me fell to die i do fear
but i will love to wip my tears away
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