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POETRY FOR DISCERNING SPIRITS

Posted on 2013/12/30 by ourpil6

Darkness is only as special as

The light that one can find therein to abide.

Silence is only as good as

The pause in the sound of the music on either side.

Solitude is only a refuge from

The madness that one has seen or has heard or has tried.

Prayer is the bridge between all of our options

During the times when one of them seems to have died.

I could only become a lesser human being

If in one extreme without the other I would hide.

2013.12.06.0700 ©

Posted on 2013/12/10 by ourpil6

The secret to navigating the circles of life

Is finding the way safely home;

Fighting the tendency to want to escape from the truth,

The weaknesses to which I am prone;

Resting in the one that gives true comfort

And the staying power to be alone.

Of course nothing in this world is so trustworthy

And some circles give us the latitude to roam,

Unless or until I can see with clear vision

Or the decision is finally written in stone.

But most times I will keep running from one to the other

Because it is that which makes me feel I am alive;

Nothing is more tortuous than the human heart

And the journeys along the way it must contrive;

Until it learns it is only in an heavenly soil

In which when planted it will eternally thrive.