Can You Tell Me

Can you tell
Me where to
Find Him

Where to look
Where to seek
Where to feel
Again

With all my heart
With all my soul
With all my strength
With all my mind
So it says

He is not far
From
Each one of us

But we
Can be
Far
From
Him

RWOz2

Love Invites

On the page 
It’s writ large

His design 
Is on you
Free of charge

From the depth
Of His heart
He invites you

Answer His call
He is the Master
The servant of all.

RWOz2

The Mockery of Falling Leaves

Their rustling skirts 
Had quieted
Wherein before
They’d rioted
Across the 
Concrete drive

There I’d done it
Seized the chance
After the wind 
Had ceased its dance
Across the
Concrete drive

I’d applied some
Wind of my own
A regular
Hand held cyclone
Across the
Concrete drive

Now perfectly
Still and pristine
One might adjudge
“To the bone clean”
Across the
Concrete drive

But one need only
Turn his back
There’ll be swirling 
Leaves of no lack
Across the
Concrete drive

Drifting down with a
Clattering crackle
Triumphing o’er me
With a soft cackle
Filling the
Concrete drive.

RWOz2

Contemplating the Abyss

Contemplating
The abyss
Is anything simpler
Than this?
Putting together
Endless lists
Of things that may
Or might go wrong

Thinking too much
And losing sleep
Things seeming such
Your peace won’t keep
At straws you clutch
And take the leap
When hope’s at bay
You don’t belong

At end of day
Can you croak the song?

RWOz2

His Mercy Waits

His mercy waits
While we’re sleeping
His mercy waits
Upon our waking
And follows us
Throughout the day

In it we move
In it we live
In it we have
Our being

When He calls
Do not turn away
For the day will come
At the end of days
If you have not come 
He will turn away.

RWOz2

Autonomy

Autonomy
The way
I got to be
It’s what I want
And want it now
Shellfish me
Not how I ought
Or should Be

Perchance tomorrow
Will end in sorrow
Look for the Godly kind
And not the worldly rind
Feasting on husks
And castoffs of your lust.

RWOz2

The Daisies of Yesteryear

Where are the daisies
Of yesteryear?

Left intact
Passed over
Unsubjected
To the eenie minee moe
Of love or no
Racked up
And pressed
Between leaves
Of remembrance
There to be found
By future readers
Complaining the text
Has been obliterated
And asking not
The greater meaning. 

RWOz2

Witness Stone

Set up the ebenezer
Let it never more be moved
Set it up beside the place
Where it all occurred

So come the future
When you pass it by
You will remember
To follow and to serve

From that time forward
‘Neath the open sky
A witness twixt you and
The omnipresent eye.

RWOz2

Humble Exchange

Clinging to your troubles
Closed fisted and closed minded
Squinting to avoid the pain

Sense of guilt
Meets pardoning grace
Again and again

Can you be humble?
Will you take
The exchange?

RWOz2

“The more burdens we put on His shoulders, the more precious will He be to us.”

— Charles Spurgeon

You See to It

Spotless blood betrayed
Fear increased
And not allayed
And those who paid
Made sure that
Upon the other
The guilt remained

‘You see to it’
Is what they said.

Feckless Pilate
Fearing the crowd
Which threatened riot
Dunked his hands
In the water bowl
As for guilt 
He denied it

‘You see to it”
Is what he said.

Under the light of truth
Do you become defiant?
Or do you change tack
And become compliant?

“Come and see” 
Is what He tells us.

RWOz2