Mother And Child - Part 2

Will you be the very one
Who will turn away from me
When the resurrection's done,
Is that just the way we'll be?

Will we both await our turns
On the plains of reckoning
While the temperature, it burns
All delusion that we bring?

Will the passing of that grief
Both our memories renew?
Will I savor the relief
At the fountain next to you?

All of thirst quenched at the hands
Of the one we longed to meet,
Will I recognize the lands
That you tread beneath your feet

As the peace I once had known
Back when you and I were one
Fore the swell of time had grown
Neath the blaze of newborn sun?

Mother And Child - Part 1

It's hard to see you weep
When you're crying in the rain;
It's hard to hear your voice
In the rattle of a train;

It's hard to hold a candle
To the splendor in the sky,
And hard to see the light
When the sun is in my eye;

So I can't know the pains
You knew when we were one,
Like tears in the rains,
And a candle in the sun;

You kept a pieace of me
From our separation sweet,
I'll know it when I see
Paradise beneath your feet.

The Returning

As I await the birth of another child any day now, I think of children all around the world and the suffering they endure. This piece is dedicated to them all, and their parents.

Laying silent in the dirt
Neath a canopy of sky,
Stains of hunger on his shirt
And a tear in his eye;

Sitting sobbing on the sands
Since the fire in the skies
Tore her father from her hands,
And her mother from her eyes;

Snuggled up in cozy bed,
She cannot shut out the noise,
Shuts her tired eyes instead
As her tears dampen toys.

All your suffering a crime,
But your day will come to soar,
Child, beyond the shades of time
Watches One who loves you more;

Unto Him is all return
And may yours be one sublime,
For the justice that you earn
Goes beyond the life of time.

Revelation

There is a peace one never knows
If one does not believe,
A peace that comes to only those
Who masterfully weave

A tapestry so intricate
And rich in every strand
That's dyed with every hue of faith
By a sincere hand;

It is the peace that came upon
A meditating man,
A visit from a stranger by
A sempiternal plan;

The angel held him in embrace
As was the task assigned,
Compressed his heart, a thing of grace
And piety combined.

And thus the being heavenly
Commanded him recite,
But how could he comply when he
Could neither read nor write;

And so the man declined despite
The vastness in his breast
Again, the angel held him tight,
Again his heart compressed.

And when the angel pressed his will,
The man was filled with fear,
And feeling quite incapable,
He sensed his end was near;

But angel actions waver not,
As does not falter plan
That hones the intellect of what
Is ordinary man.

Embracing him again so tight,
Expelling all his breath,
Compressing heart with bonds of light,
The man was near death;

And then release, expanding breast
So wide and so sublime,
Exploding spirit long suppressed,
Transcending space and time.

A wave of light that filled the sea,
A blast that filled the air,
A shock that spanned the universe
And all within its care;

Then rose up, through the firmaments
The news of what occurred:
The last and final messenger
Had borne the Mighty Word.