God has willed it
Say your best prayer
Life is so blessed
Great fortune is reach
The degree is higher
Happiness is reach
The world here after
Most hereafter is safe.
“Oh people of this temporary world..
May you enjoy the abundance of its trivial offerings..
You have no clue of what I see and yearn for..
And, how could you, as the death is the end of the road..
But, for the lover, it’s the union with the beloved.. the end of waiting and suffering..
To light up the world one must first burn a little..
Burn in the love of the ONE till the temporary curtains fall..
To reveal the divine elevator to the beginning of peace and permanent grace..
And an eternal pleasure and a never fading Joy!
So, let the lover cry more and laugh only but little…
For his yearning is not for the Temporary…”
~UK
PS: Dedicated to the utmost faith and resistance of the brave people of Gaza and Palestine
#FreePalestine
Meet me there ...
Be it rain or shine,
Since I like both
Any weather is fine
Find me there ...
With those already met,
To mingle there ...
With ones I haven't yet
In a good place where
We can laugh and smile,
And talk to the ones
Not seen in awhile
I'll be going there
When my time comes,
I'll be waiting there
With my old chums
Promise me now ...
You will cry no tears,
And meet me there
In one hundred years.
Wearing nothing but rags
We laugh and sail on the seas of the netherworld
Without flags
With iron nails
The lamb laughed on the cross's world
Without wails
With gaffe
Against seas whirled
Laugh
Some souls laughed at their rags
Laughed when they entered heaven's world
Laugh
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Sucked up and up, of this thought
Which cyclonic blows.
I'll admit, irrefutably
As irretrievably!
More wondrous than the wildest
Imaginative ride.
For what, in truth is set down
On life's other side.
"The Sensual Hereafter"
we rise
like flotsam
and jetsam
our colours
always
sting
our time
lost in the
sun setting
every now
and again
we find love
it’s a returning
to departure
that requires
the long kiss goodnight
that deserves a
close remembering
when the
message
is found in the
sensual
hereafter
we deliver
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
"Hereafter, unidentified"
Unidentified
a whole world
submerged
in a dream
Mysterion
in solitary seas
messages
stolen
from a heart
last minute
in another’s
dream
meaning seized
siren
calls
from the seabed
identified,
unidentified
here
after
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
Before
the petals bloom
forever and a day-
the first earth and heaven must pass
away
Inspired by Rev 20 & 22
| Year Posted 2010
Some day I shall leave this world and find
Proper responses to questions I have asked
Leaving earth’s thorny issues far behind,
Some day I shall leave this world and find
A completely new outlook for this mind,
And have my life purposes clearly defined.
I will take up important everlasting tasks
Some day I shall leave this world and find
Proper responses to questions I have asked.
written June 28, 2021
All I want in life is Jesus
Both here on earth, and in the here and after;
All I want from Jesus
Is longevity of life?
I’ll be His bride and He’ll be my, bridegroom
Holy is the one
Holy is He the one
The one true righteous one
Holy are His arms
Holding me so strong
Yes, He’s the lamb
O’ Holy Lamb of God, Our Lord
Halleluiah, glory worthy is the Lord Our God almighty
Holy is the one
Holy is He the one
The one true righteous one
Holy are His arms
Holding me so strong
Yes, He’s the lamb
O’ Holy Lamb of God, Our Lord
Halleluiah, glory worthy is the Lord Our God almighty
All I need is peace in Jesus
Both here in my heart and spirit, in the here and after;
All I want from Jesus
Is longevity of life?
Halleluiah, glory worthy is the Lord Our God almighty
Holy is the one
Holy is He the one
The one true righteous one
Holy are His arms
Holding me so strong
Yes, He’s the lamb
O’ Holy Lamb of God, Our Lord
Halleluiah, glory worthy is the Lord Our God almighty
1/22/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
Politics governs our
temporal lives
Religion conscripting
eternity’s prize
Together they’ve killed
more than famine and war
A plague that still haunts us
—to shun and deplore
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2020)
clarity is something that manufactures you.
all the meditation in the world makes you still,
but so does death, knowledge that comes from
being between life and death is the strongest mortar
for the bricks you would lay. Anyone can live,
Anyone can quit life anytime. It is the threshing,
those moments between life and death where
the grains of wisdom are separated from the chaff.
Two worlds collide in you: the inner world is
your tether to your God; the outer world,
a tether to your life. You may choose to follow
either lead, but you are the center of the pull
for each. Their tension is what gives you
your existence. It is also what makes each choice
inevitable. Mortality is a condensed version of infinity;
Cliff notes, so to speak: "to be or not to be".
Keep reading, but remember: words describe
existence. Beyond existence languages crumble.
There is a place that is beyond all belief. In this place
there is no need for knowledge. There is, in fact, no need.
Gradually, rays of sky dim
A stark blanket wrapping the woodlands
Night...too cold
Each branch thinning across clayed earth
And I am wrought with blaming thoughts ..
Birds growling my loneliness
I search for lamplight's glint
Still the pain and angush return
A wound , an abrasion that diesn't heal
Emptying 'me again
where thoughts beg;
will hereafter null this existence?
~
8/21/2019 Revised
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Glimpse a pure sight of profound peace,
Reach beyond show a poignant feel;
Ask for warm light to bind true ease,
Choice moves true flow as grace now heals;
Etch a fine play in colours grand.
Heart and mind sync as soul fronts joy,
Earn that wise way in wholesome trends;
Reap precious think in bounty's ploy,
End and start swing from movement here;
Apt that fond space in timeless tints,
Face to face bring what truth endears;
Touch and taste trace a telling mint,
Edge of quest stakes a vibrant twist,
Rest in bright make love's lasting gist.
Leon Enriquez
24 April 2018
Singapore
Our Beloved Pets await us in the place that follows this.
And when next I see them, each one I'll give a Kiss!
In my heart and soul - I know I'll find them there.
Believing otherwise would be too much to bare.
They're playing, pouncing, and keeping each other company.
Having lots of fun, frolicking, being happy and carefree.
They went on ahead of me for reasons I know not.
Each one a special treasure, that I really miss a lot!
If you've lost a Beloved Pet along life's weary way.
Keep them in your heart and mind until that joyous day.
Talk about them to your existing pets and reassure them to.
That should they go before you - your love for them rings true.
Our Beloved Pets do await us - in this I have no doubt.
Everything comes full circle, that is what life is all about.
So remember your pets with fondness as you travel down life's way.
Knowing that when the time is right with them you'll once again - PLAY!!!
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