Holy Ground It’s a paradigm shift – an anomaly in the matrix, We are walking, Yes we’re walking, On Holy ground I have never seen it like this before More people are talking More people are walking And they’re headed for the door We’re through the looking glass Standing on the river’s shore The beast [...]
We call you from Gallipoli We call you from Gallipoli – the Light Brigade – the River Kwai From death camps on the Mekong, and from mountain’s cave and den We call you from desertion to the wilderness and scented bed From Flanders Fields and Auschwitz – from Stalingrad and Diamond Head From hulls of [...]
Shifting Light (My Window Sill) Shifting light, shifting emphasis Glancing down a darkened hallway Watching for the sun to rise Subtle nuances of light Giving credence to the vision of our eyes Tonal clarity, amber in the dance Sunset on a hillside and on stone And mortar, casting shadows Sparkling on the lake Walking hand [...]
Charlie Charlie is done in pencil He can’t afford ink Or artist’s palette Or to be immortalized in song There is no studio to have him sit And capture subtle hues Of the color of his eyes Or hair Or any of the lines that etched his face From all the challenges of life That [...]
The River Crossing We are crossing a river Deep and wide And before we enter, let’s pray And then I have something to say. We have picked the safest way across And we’ve tried to think it through There are some of us who could cross alone But they are reticent and few The current [...]
Fool for Christ Fool enough to follow Fool enough to believe Fool enough to take a stand Fool enough to speak up Fool enough to ask Fool enough to listen Fool enough to trust His Word Fool enough to to play the fool For all the fools who won’t Fool enough to see the foolishness [...]
Refugees Bowing their heads as they go Shoulders drooped Discouraged Tattered Empty and stressed Looking for something to save them Longing for peace Longing for rest Battling out of the swift pollution Crawling up on the shore Bound for chains and slavery Bound to suffer more If only I could save them There’s no choice [...]
The Fool Twas then that I began To play the fool For all reason was abandoned Good and Evil were embraced So answer not the fool Lest thou be just like him For folly has an end As the darkness yields to dawn The sun will rise The seeds will grow We’ll reap a mighty [...]
WAR Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under [...]
Lift up the voice of Lamentation (Call to America) Lift up the voice of lamentation For destruction and the whirlwind are upon us We were as children playing before the storm Famine, sword, pestilence We did not heed the call or warning And they are come upon us unawares For we were all as in [...]
