Freedom provides the option
To thrive while unrestrained
By individual circumstances
By the self-serving demands of others
By our own compelling pain
Freedom provides an opening
For truth to roam free
Sometimes hurting, sometimes humbling, sometimes healing
Sometimes returning to its owner
A long-lost key
Freedom provides an opportunity
To test the boundaries of our souls
To examine the framework of our egos
To recalculate the sum of expenses
That renders us whole
What's required beyond Grace for a friend to be cool?
Disagreement's sufficient to void what friends bring
to Lord's table, His feast, where the enemies' flags
fill the hillsides like trees seen from mountain king's fort?
If a friend says, I'm crazy, may prayer help brain
scan what fosters such feelings! Can feelings be wrong
if relayed from the heart of a comrade-in-arms?
Don't they merit attention, a color-blind friend
can't judge contrasts, one poetry deaf, can't love art?
Can Life's play not be blessed by a faint actor's part?
Let me feel what I feel and not have to pretend
a savant's skills have wowed; all should bow to bling's charms!
Is the athlete (who leaves pack behind) the most strong
or the friend, who lifts more than what's fair (won't complain)?
Let me honor myself and not have to comport
with staid views some might flirt with, who denigrate rags
of less fortunate comrades. The 'Humble,' I sing!
Where is Grace less contrived than God's servant, Court's fool?
Long Tooth
November 9th in 2020
Persuaded that God is eternal blessings’* Source
I feast in His provision-granting course…
Such offers grace for savouring delight
while empowering heart to share with loving might.
Midst crisis that causes heart to feel down
my faith sees the Creator’s supply pouring down…
Such is functional giving exemplified at its best
conquering dearth to provide for all and the rest.
Miraculous resources geared toward sharing gladness
indeed, can smite selfishness and greediness…
Such heightens gratitude of kindness-essence
as it subdues apathetic self-sufficiency’s prevalence.
*Genesis 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
April 28, 2020
Honorable Mention, "BRIAN'S CHOICE B,any form,any theme" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 5/13/2020.
Whatever
provisions we may need in our life,
God
has already stored, in the depths of
our soul!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
24 January 2020
The greedy provisions made to last him a hundred lives but failed to make any for afterlife!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
24 January 2017
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