Pride comes strutting in through a closed door
You weren't invited here
Your countenance lingers near
Yet you're never welcomed anymore
Anger slaps you hard in the face
Yet you remain ignorant to its sting
And you just keep on the broken wing
For reality flies here, at an incomprehensible pace
My bony knuckles hit the sandy foundation
Upon which you stand with your big head
Inside, your small thoughts embed
You sink deep beneath, under the congregation
Yet you set yourself high above
And try to pluck realities' strings
No sound resonates and pain it brings
You can't fit your incompetence in a glove
You slide easy, yes no such thing as friction
You're making up words with your tongue
And in the end it's going to get rung
And your life ends up one big contradiction
This hate resides and boils
There inside it accumulates
Inside, there it tolerates
Until my thought uncoils
Up from the deepest abyss
Comes this prolonged hope
One day it will surface, and cope
With the most dense bliss...
24.8.09
11.8.09
Love Contradiction
Going faster through this life
It will end at the speed of day
Love will escape
Your grip on it not so tight
So give it all to a soul
That's lost in the fight
That is too weak to win over fate
That can't pick up his bones
You can't pick up humility
You can't face the truth
So it faces you and penetrates
But you force it out
The truth's bind is a tight one
And you're fighting it's grip
You can't let go of your arrogance
And you can't deflate your head
It swells very swell
And I can't tell if you tell
This fight that you fight
If you don't care to care
No, I'm just losing my mind
When I look at your heart
It's fixed on a temporary find
No, not a diamond in the mine
Not the sonorous instrument in the symphony
Not to be found in secretive halls of insanity
No, under the floor boards
Rotten, and without a cause
Your incoherency is incomprehensible
And I'm just scraping the skin
Dig in, dive into shallowness
That's what busted my head
My head can't find a place
Where it can explore adventurously
No, it's no abyss
Just a empty shallowness
Love simply can't do this very thing
Not ever found in a sentence with shallow
No, unheard of, unless referring to what it's not
It's clearly ambiguous, looking at your definition
It will end at the speed of day
Love will escape
Your grip on it not so tight
So give it all to a soul
That's lost in the fight
That is too weak to win over fate
That can't pick up his bones
You can't pick up humility
You can't face the truth
So it faces you and penetrates
But you force it out
The truth's bind is a tight one
And you're fighting it's grip
You can't let go of your arrogance
And you can't deflate your head
It swells very swell
And I can't tell if you tell
This fight that you fight
If you don't care to care
No, I'm just losing my mind
When I look at your heart
It's fixed on a temporary find
No, not a diamond in the mine
Not the sonorous instrument in the symphony
Not to be found in secretive halls of insanity
No, under the floor boards
Rotten, and without a cause
Your incoherency is incomprehensible
And I'm just scraping the skin
Dig in, dive into shallowness
That's what busted my head
My head can't find a place
Where it can explore adventurously
No, it's no abyss
Just a empty shallowness
Love simply can't do this very thing
Not ever found in a sentence with shallow
No, unheard of, unless referring to what it's not
It's clearly ambiguous, looking at your definition
10.8.09
23.7.09
Knees
It's weird thinking about how our actions affect our souls.
And yet we take our actions lightly.
I believe that when we are on our knees, it was meant to be uncomfortable.
It's a sort of sacrifice to God. A sacrifice of our comfort.
Sure, it's not so uncomfortable being on your knees... but it's more about being in a position you're not aren't in usually. It's different from sitting, standing or laying down.
I remember in youth group a long time ago, we had a worship service. The youth leader told us all to get on our knees in worship. We all obeyed. It was not long until I shifted to a more comfortable position. Looking all around the room you'd see the same with everyone else. They kept shifting around trying to get comfortable. Then there was the worship leader, throughout the whole thing, he remained on his knees.
We constantly want to make ourselves comfortable. Take a look at all these different kinds of beds you can get to suit your comfort. Like the sleep number...you can set it to your exact level of comfort.
We have recliners
We have seats in our cars
We have chairs at our dinner tables
We have couches in our living rooms
We have lawn chairs
Hammocks
Air mattresses for when were away from our nice and comfy bed and we have to sleep on the ground.
We are OBSESSED with comfort.And why?
Of course, it is a great thing to keep our necks and backs in line...but not only do we make ourselves comfortable physically, we make ourselves comfortable in every way. Spiritually, emotionally, and sometimes mentally.
When we feel like weve done our part spiritually, we've had our daily Bible reading that was far from our minds and hearts, we feel we can say were done for the day. That was a comfortable amount of scripture reading.
When we feel hurt inside emotionally, we seek comfort from our friends, family and God. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. God intended emotional pain to bring us closer to Him. 1 Peter 4:13 "But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy." We can know that in our pain, it will bring us closer to God, and it is temporary.
When we fill our minds with sexuality, do we feel comfortable in that? Can it be? Why else would someone want to fill their minds with it?It feels good to those who think those thoughts. It provides them solace. But lust comes from a deep dissatisfaction with life. Theres many other things we think of in our minds, and not all of it comforts us, but our thoughts can lead us to do things we never even intended in our hearts to do. We hold our hearts captive when we think corrupt thoughts.
When a man gets on one knee when he proposes to a woman, I don't think it would be as comfortable as standing. I'm not sure why this has been practiced...but I admire it. If he were to be on two knees, I would think that would look as if he were begging her to marry him. I think maybe being on one knee instead of two can be looked at as someone who wants you to marry them, but isn't making it more of an imperitive. At least that's what it means to me.
When we are on both knees in worship to God, were setting ourselves low as a beggar does.I get on my knees in prayer when I think the request is very important and I'm in a time of desperation. But our lives always reflect desperation. Us, who are of God, have only experienced a small part of Him, and our lives reflect our need for Him every second of the day.
I feel we should abandon our comfortable lives, and be on our knees, giving up our comfort in order to follow Christ. I don't feel we earn His love by this way, but I think that if Christ died for us, the least we can do is live for Him. To live for Him, we should give up comfort, and not live as the world does, but to come out of our shells and comfort zones that our fears and insecurities have conjured, and follow Christ.
Because Jesus didn't live a comfortable life on earth.
And yet we take our actions lightly.
I believe that when we are on our knees, it was meant to be uncomfortable.
It's a sort of sacrifice to God. A sacrifice of our comfort.
Sure, it's not so uncomfortable being on your knees... but it's more about being in a position you're not aren't in usually. It's different from sitting, standing or laying down.
I remember in youth group a long time ago, we had a worship service. The youth leader told us all to get on our knees in worship. We all obeyed. It was not long until I shifted to a more comfortable position. Looking all around the room you'd see the same with everyone else. They kept shifting around trying to get comfortable. Then there was the worship leader, throughout the whole thing, he remained on his knees.
We constantly want to make ourselves comfortable. Take a look at all these different kinds of beds you can get to suit your comfort. Like the sleep number...you can set it to your exact level of comfort.
We have recliners
We have seats in our cars
We have chairs at our dinner tables
We have couches in our living rooms
We have lawn chairs
Hammocks
Air mattresses for when were away from our nice and comfy bed and we have to sleep on the ground.
We are OBSESSED with comfort.And why?
Of course, it is a great thing to keep our necks and backs in line...but not only do we make ourselves comfortable physically, we make ourselves comfortable in every way. Spiritually, emotionally, and sometimes mentally.
When we feel like weve done our part spiritually, we've had our daily Bible reading that was far from our minds and hearts, we feel we can say were done for the day. That was a comfortable amount of scripture reading.
When we feel hurt inside emotionally, we seek comfort from our friends, family and God. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. God intended emotional pain to bring us closer to Him. 1 Peter 4:13 "But rejoice, inasmuch as you are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, you may be glad also with exceeding joy." We can know that in our pain, it will bring us closer to God, and it is temporary.
When we fill our minds with sexuality, do we feel comfortable in that? Can it be? Why else would someone want to fill their minds with it?It feels good to those who think those thoughts. It provides them solace. But lust comes from a deep dissatisfaction with life. Theres many other things we think of in our minds, and not all of it comforts us, but our thoughts can lead us to do things we never even intended in our hearts to do. We hold our hearts captive when we think corrupt thoughts.
When a man gets on one knee when he proposes to a woman, I don't think it would be as comfortable as standing. I'm not sure why this has been practiced...but I admire it. If he were to be on two knees, I would think that would look as if he were begging her to marry him. I think maybe being on one knee instead of two can be looked at as someone who wants you to marry them, but isn't making it more of an imperitive. At least that's what it means to me.
When we are on both knees in worship to God, were setting ourselves low as a beggar does.I get on my knees in prayer when I think the request is very important and I'm in a time of desperation. But our lives always reflect desperation. Us, who are of God, have only experienced a small part of Him, and our lives reflect our need for Him every second of the day.
I feel we should abandon our comfortable lives, and be on our knees, giving up our comfort in order to follow Christ. I don't feel we earn His love by this way, but I think that if Christ died for us, the least we can do is live for Him. To live for Him, we should give up comfort, and not live as the world does, but to come out of our shells and comfort zones that our fears and insecurities have conjured, and follow Christ.
Because Jesus didn't live a comfortable life on earth.
18.7.09
Temporarily materialistic
Suns beating down on the earth's crust
And warming skin deep
But inside we remain cold
Inside is the arctic
Skin melts
Tissues constrict
Bones flake
Organs idle
Were no longer alive
Now here's our soul
Surfacing
Taking control
There goes our bodies
There goes our make up
There goes our clothes
And there goes our sterotype
When it all melts away
All that remains
Is that struggling soul
Freed from a materialistic mind
And warming skin deep
But inside we remain cold
Inside is the arctic
Skin melts
Tissues constrict
Bones flake
Organs idle
Were no longer alive
Now here's our soul
Surfacing
Taking control
There goes our bodies
There goes our make up
There goes our clothes
And there goes our sterotype
When it all melts away
All that remains
Is that struggling soul
Freed from a materialistic mind
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