simple...

It’s a simple question… do you love me?
It’s a time to say how much I do…
The story never seems to be right…
When I just pretend to follow you…

Willing blinded by my desires
Willing blackened the beauty of your truth
When I look at evidence behind me..
Could I say I followed you?

How do you say I follow
When you see the evidence of all
My worries, my striving, my driving
To be more, say more, be the end-all

So many have told me to sit in silence
To watch the beauty of your ways
To see Your hand in daily splendor
Of a tree, a leaf or a simple gaze

You love me still, it humbles me
Only makes me desire you more
Your kindness going beyond my simple thoughts
Your kindness leading me to Your truth…

Dilemma

I know that I need to write
Not just because Wendy wants me to
But because I have things to say
Things that express my point of view.

The problem I have is simple
And you'll probably laugh when you hear
But I want what I put "out there" to be perfect
So I may work on one poem for a year.

I know, I know, it's obsessive!
But I just can't help myself, it seems
The Me that I wish to present to the world
Is really only Me in my dreams.

(Written on the fly, out of pure guilt that Wendy's posted three pieces, and I have not yet posted one...)

Beauty

Assignment... is this detailed enough? We have until the end of October... as many creative writings, songs, etc... on beauty that we can find! Conna? Lu? Anyone? Feedback please ... how do you want to do this? Isn't beauty a wild thing to write about for October? :)... it kind of goes agaisnt the month!


Wendy

Start to Live

It's where the rubber hits the road
It's where I begin to stand
Do I stumble back and forth
or say exactly who I am

It's where the walk becomes the talk
and I find out who I am
Do I stay, hesitate
or find out who I am

Start to live
Begin to breathe
Walk in Faith
Oh Believe
I have something to say
I have something to say

They could crush you
they could break you
they could push you, make you fall
If they all got together
I'm sure they'd make a mighty wall

Their prophecies still linger
Gather in my head
Pushin' back their confusion
hold'n to the words you've said

Start to live
Begin to breathe
walk in faith, oh believe
I have something to say
I have something to say

You are all I want
You are all I need
Though the waters rage away
I will not be moved...