Author of A Time To Kill
They walk the streets Head phones in place Pates turned down with a Beanie atop Diggin’ some music And lovin’ that dope Pissing away a life That was given By God for more Than just to wander About the streets and Crashing in the landing Never to know What it was for Him to adore […]
January 2020 after the death of Matthew We live, we dieHe lived, He died.He rose again.He spoke the truth,Said we will Like Him rise.And who is wiseTo shun those liesThat tell us we are butDust in the wind? Remembering a nephew departed, we proclaim: He lives.
0830, 8 Feb., 2020 A letter is so much better A phone call is spoken and The words are heard and gone But the letter is so much better! You cut the envelope Unfold the paper You see, you touch it Again and again As oft as you like No end You see, you touch […]
10 Feb., 2020 The guests have gone Ceremonies and kinds words Are remembered Good people have done their duty And I mine. We all go back to our days Our ways are productive And we all have things to do But mine are in sorrow What do I spend them for? The chore of children […]
The aftermath Long and dreary, The people are gone To their places of rest. And to rest I too would go And be with him If I could Were it right to do. O to be with you, son! But you have won. We are still here And you are there Where we will be Forever […]
30 Jan., 2020 We are all on the same path Yet we all fall from it And so meet death At some time and some placeWe don’t know when or where But death is, indeed, there He met him unexpectedly In the middle of the night That enemy came for him And he thought he […]
20 January, 2020 Sometimes (blow ’em up) we need to make our messages less direct (blow ’em up). People cannot handle the truth unabashedly proclaimed. They need (blow ’em up) sometimes encouragement by indirect summons (blow ’em up) or exhortation. The call directly (blow ’em up) to a particular corrective or reformatory action is just […]
(cir. Jan. 2020) FiremenPolicemenPastorsTeachersPolitical office holdersMissionariesCoachesMartyrs (“over there”)ParentsHusbandWifeEmployersEmployeesCaregiversLobbyists (Whoops! Forgot those”clinic bombers”! Ah. If you neglect to do your duty, you deny yourself blessings from God. And when the churches of God give respect due them, revival will come. You get blessed in your OBEDIENCE.)
7 Jan., 2020 ‘Twas a time when the gates Were down No where to be found Were the people of mercy Of God Fled by the Fed Oh the dread That someone might be caught For naught! They hid themselves from the chore They closed the door No more for the poor In Spirit and […]
23 Dec., 2019 Here I sit, again The music plays To the right The light of day Breaks through the glass The feet on the wall Over water walk To the center Where the union Shows her and me And then to the left The many that follow On that tree Free to follow And […]