To show His love,
Our God did send,
His one and only Son,
To save from sin,
We mortals hear, that,
"This is not the end."
Yes, We offend,
Our God above,
Yes, we were born in sin.
Please, God forgive,
We’ll make amends, since,
"This is not the end."
We travel through,
This life we wend,
With Son of Man as Friend.
We have no fear,
Since He is near, knowing,
“This is not the end.”
And we have learned,
Faith, Hope and Love,
Of all our fellow men,
Must be secured,
On these Life depends, for,
“This is not the end.”
This life on earth,
With such few years,
Know death it will attend.
Yet we have Faith,
And Hope is dear, that,
"This is not the end."
And when the veil,
On life descends,
And closes out our case,
We'll know for sure,
That Truth endured, and,
"It was not the end."
* * *
Darrell Simmerman © 2025
Ages of Time…
We split it into fragile parts,
Seconds, minutes, hours,
Measured life in numbered beats,
And called this structure “ours.”
Yet time won’t count what we keep,
It does not rush or wait,
It passes beyond our grids and lines,
Unaffected by our fate.
Time was never born of clocks,
Nor carved by ticking hands,
It stretched before the stars and earth,
Not ruled by human plans.
It runs its path, it never stops
Unbroken perfection, vast and free.
Yet never a glimpse has been seen by me.
Norman Van Etten
Artificial Intelligence
Absolutely Requires
Understanding How
All Intelligence Offers
Only Artificiality...
How All Intelligence
Is Artificial, Infinitely...
As Naturally Human
As Survival, As Human
As Any Identity Need.
*****
The Mask,
The Artificial Self
Self-Defining.
-Gray Squirrel
04-27-2026
I dwell in a place remote,
where the graph meets the asymptote,
up through tree leaves near the sun
where death and birth are seen as one,
or in the horizon on the sea,
this denizen of infinity.
He needs her,
more than he knows.
she chases away the demons
though only temporarily.
The long day
pushes him to darkness;
though she retrieves him,
he returns to life
never quite the same.
Their journey is endless.
It's comforting to shrink
Down onto a hard white surface
Ant-sized, running,
Dust for pebbles
Sunlight through glass
Clear boundaries
But room to move
Safe from sweeping forces
Go ahead and ask.
Answer: it's drying out
Direction evaporating.
Clear sky's a cage
See the giant birds
They're not happy
Infinity is always ...
Just beyond the Event Horizon ...
Never ending with no beginning ...
No Omega. No Alpha.
... always in the now.
Futile is the sun to a heart in awe
And trivial is the Moon's cosmic fame
These worldly voices to me are noises
These flowers are like invisible stars
For what is it that the galactic infinity contains...
Nothing, but your face to keep me sane
What brings me joy is a Pair of those hazel brown eyes
And a warm melodious smile that makes me fly
For we are one in every realm
Transcending worlds, Entangled in love
Enantioming in shadows and light
Or so I thought............
8th of Jan, 2026 (12:36 am)
I yearn....thoughts toss in my mind snapshots of the past return
I want absolution, such I crave
An equilibrium before I’m in my grave
How can I best hold a true course?
I feel dammed by past misadventures
Wrong reactions made
That caused a barrier, that emotions cannot simply invade
The erroneous thoughts a lame tongue
There is much I would do and much I would make undone
And so I pick up the threads of prayer
Aware of many losses, how might I dare?
Alone Christ’s blood that judges me not
His truest love it can be my lot.
Beyond all mischief, despite all faults though great & untold,
He has endless vaults; his compassion is forever.
I’ll kneel awhile or on my mattress truly seek his side
To let his blood renew my all
Help me Jesus, please don’t let me fall.
©Joe Maverick 29th December 2025
spotted brown boobies
in the Caribbean salt -
flying fish are caught
Doctor, I'm in trouble deep,
thoughts of infinity disturb my sleep -
and the issues of our nation,
like healthcare and inflation.
The doctor said, "just be chill"
and handed me a bill.
The "you owe" figure did inflate -
in the box, a sideways 8.
ONE happily splits into TWO
joy of THREE becomes FOUR’s stability
salt transforms into amber in FIVE’s multiplicities
SIX races into externalisations and insertion
matrices to dust as SEVEN links Earth to Heaven
EIGHT the Ouroboros ~ Infinity’ Gift as leaven
NINE summation and crescendo _______we begin once more...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Your laughs and chaotic teeth,
Pretty how your eyes squeeze!
Lookin' you from far and away,
To close and echo all the way.
Love to be an idiot, you smiled!
Your smile always makes my day.
Your lovely threats to slap me,
A hope to meet but scares me.
Tie your hairs, before I fall apart.
Let's wait to frame memories,
Again, at once, before the eternity,
And stay tuned until the infinity.
The finite infinity
of childhood
the wonder
if you never let it go
if you remember
that you’re forever
just too small to know
if awe and open mind
you are blessed
to not outgrow.
Find Infinity In Infinite Fin........
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