All Feelings

''And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine'' - Leviticus 20:26

Billions Must Give Praise To The Lord

"All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name" - Psalms 86:9

King of the Cul-De-Sac

Day dreams of the rural Midwest, dreams of nowhere; broken sidewalks and high school queenies.

Faded cigarette packages along the side of the road; thrown away piles in the woods. 

Stale cigarette smoke in the church parking lot. 

Wood panel Chevy Astros and restaurants where everyone knows yr name.

Self martyrdom in the bar bathroom; muggy nights w/ the crickets in yr ears. 

Used cans of chew w/ beads on the car seats; the orange florescent light in the apartment hallway fading in a midwestern fire. 

Losers finishing last on a bet that left them behind. 

A southern rapture; the faded painted mural behind the withered pulpit. 

Rivers of grace forever flowing in barren lands; the concrete itself cries out in anguish. 

A sabbath eternal, creation renewal; all quiet in the land of dust.     

''For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body'' 

- Romans 8:22-23

Cheeto Fingers

Blinking red lights, 

empty cul de sacs; 

basketball nets sway in the cold night. 

Bars full of the tired, 

stringed lights wrapped around the buildings;

neon lights fading. 

Big empty living rooms illuminated with 3000 channels of nothing. 

Things that once was, 

now familiar, 

in a different light; 

shadowed by normalcy.  

Big empty schools and anxious nights,

the hallways are the mosaics of past lives, 

sitting aside the dark and watching the outside; 

neighborhoods you've never been and some that feel like another life time. 

I took a left, 

turn around, 

in another direction, 

end up same place; 

different person.  

''Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: but as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy'' - 1 Peter 1:13-16