New Poems
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I saw Your face todayand I turned away.I knew it was You.Not at first.But something in Your eyes. Your humanity was undeniable.Your divinity hidden in dust and weariness.You looked at me.And still, I looked through You. Your hands were trembling.Your sign was misspelled.Your clothes were worn thin by cold and time.I was ashamed. Ashamed for Read more
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Unmoved burden within my heart,each name a weight I can’t put down.Their silence echoes in my soul,and mine in theirs, a thorny crown. I long to lay this burden low,to breathe again, unbound, undone.But grace is heavy in the handuntil it’s offered, one by one. Grant me strength to break this chain,to let the mercy Read more
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The morning rain falls soft and slowA breeze through autumn’s leaves does blowThe sunrise stills the waking landAll fashioned by the Maker’s hand Within such calm His voice is nearA whisper only hearts can hearIn beauty silence depth and graceHe shows His love reveals His face But in the noise I strain to findThe sacred Read more
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We are not meant to walk alonefrom breath to dustwe are born of Oneand drawn to the same flame Godorigin and end When we seek Him side by sidehands openhearts turnedwe build the kind of bondsthat echo Edenreflecting His imageshaped in His likeness To love Godis to love each otherone thread woven through two hearts Read more
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I built a throne of words and willChiseled from dreams I dared to nameA kingdom rising, breath by breathUntil the mirror looked the same But in the hush a whisper cameNot thunder not a sky ablazeJust simple truth to truly liveIs not to shine but give way He must increaseThe stars that burn are not Read more
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We wait for skies to tear like veils,for suns to multiply,for angels blazing on the hills,as if heaven must shoutto be real. But miracles walk barefoot in the grass.It bursts between sidewalk cracks,a dandelion uninvited yet beautifully golden.It sings the throaty song of a burbling creekchuckling over smooth stones. It lives in the bright eyes Read more
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a lament and longing You formed us from dustbreathed Your own breath into clayand whispered“Have dominion” To cultivate (not crush)To hold (not hoard) Yet werestless with enoughreach for moreconfusing image with equalityobedience with ownership We trample the gardenin our race for crownsturning plows to swordsand rivers to poison We named the creaturesthen forgot their namesWe Read more
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It begins the way dawn begins,a hazy blanket settles on the lawn,the hush before the sparrow’s song,before the gold coin of the sun slipsinto the trembling grasses. I kneel (or not).I only need to stop.The wind will do the rest,ruffling my hair,carrying the scent of the damp earthlike an old psalm. My hands stay empty.The Read more
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A declarative birtha people reaching for freedom,casting off the yoke of kings,with hope in the promise of rights no man could take. But what of the conqueror within?We broke from the crown,yet the hunger to ruleremained rooted in our soil. Two hundred and forty-nine years,a long season,enough for wisdom to take root,enough for the wounds Read more
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We walk as shadows in a world of light,bearing within a hollow vast and deep,a God-sized ache no treasure can make right,no wisdom soothes, no pleasure lull to sleep. It is the hunger carved before our birth,the silent cry that stirs in all we do,the longing sewn into the soil of earth,the restless pull that Read more
Prayerfully Poetic 