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Eternal Best Friend Forever

Eternal, everlasting, enduring one God without end
Joins me in jubilant jumping up worship jubilee
Spirit sends a scented sunrise of newborn surprises in songs
Miracles made manifest in majestic melodies
Healer when regret harnesses my hobbled heart,
When I lose luminosity in lightless valleys of shame,
Arms opened wide to the abiding, the ageless anthem;
Best friend forever – I feast on flowing fountains of forgiveness
Gracious gift of grace granted to gyrating inspiration
Sweet sanctuary of sleepy serenades ‘neath slumberless stars
Pictures of hearts pirouette in my praise - parading through my pen;
My constant companion, creator, close colleague of comfort
Pensive I ponder your playfulness – knowing my pleas pledge a peace poem;
Savior of my soiled spirit, of sinners and saints – lover of my soul
My thankfulness throbs – tingling thrill - twirling into my thanksgiving

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Slumberless

As darkness falls and others sleep
in moonlight, full and sleek
Internal emotions sick in my soul
and the dreams never come

Persistent wispers must always taunt
like the blowing wind outside
As sleepless demons slowly creeping in
through to emptiness... to my mind inside

Thirty minutes could be thirty years
and another hour has passed
and still, I fight this consciousness
of the vivd times of past

From front to back, side to side then
back to front my shadows roll
uncomfort in my memory
and even in this empty bed

I reach across to gain the memory
of your hair
i used to play with your hair
it brought me comfort
it brought me rest
it broguht me saftley
it brought me sleeping
like a lake of fluid smooth dreams
in this chamber room you'de keep

And so I sing this song of lonely nights forever
to pacify my mind
Then roll to the other side of love
where there is no one.

Beanteth these sheets I palpitate
those demons always participate

My soul tormented as I sink
from dusk to dawn and these hundred years
that pass so slow and not even flow of tears
can put me out for a single wink.

Slumberless

tracing drops that scatter shoot
down the bedroom pane.
humming head I can't refute
that bed she calls my name.
 
fighting slumber gallantly,
I need to write some verse.
my eyelids dying valiantly
yet insomnia is my curse.


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