The soldiers have all gone home

The fickle jeering crowd too

After it has its day

Even evil gets tired

And needs to rest

The blood spatter

Is everywhere

The thorny crown

Piercing spear

Divided clothes

Our shadows truly

Taller than our souls

But not as tall

As the three crosses

That loom large

On history’s horizon

The long awaited transformation

We yearn for arrives

Water into wine

Sins forgiven

Hope renewed

Faith rewarded

Reconciliation

Of heaven and earth

The first flickers

Of eternal light

And everlasting glory

On this snowy day

I think of Boston

And I think of you

The holy temple of Fenway

The magical New England falls

The dirty water of the Charles

Ducks in the Common

The grittiness of Southie

Ghosts of the past

Unending cold

Hopes of the young

Memories of the old

But I think mainly of home

Safe, warm, accepting, joyful

Because I think of Boston

And I think of you

The wind-swept watchtower stands alone

Beyond is the dark

Dangerous

Known and unknown

The deafening silence

Rings out the time

Hours, minutes, seconds

It is tiring

The interminable waiting

For nothing

Yet everything to happen

Shots, sirens, screams

The endless nightmares

Outside the walls

Sit with me

Walk

Stand

I don’t care

Just be

Be yourself

In the grocery store

Coffee shop

Parked car

Crowded street

Elegant city

Drug corner

Or you painting

And let me be

Finally myself

Free

Free to love

Free to be loved

And just be

It is still love

And like its brothers and sisters

It shapes and forms you

Just like the emptiness of a vessel gives it usefulness

The missing link in a chain reveals its weakness

It teaches you to believe and believe

Until you reach the end of faith 

And yet you still believe

Not so much in miracles 

But that nothing is wasted

And all roads lead to the desired resolution

The magic and grace of it all

I don’t know 

How to talk to you

Reach you

Get you

Treat you

Love you

I just don’t know

A fool in the rain

Or just about anywhere

Stripped to the core

Everything to win

Nothing left to lose

But what I do know

You already know

Tomorrow

Forever and a day

That’s what you felt like 

Waking in the dreaming 

Dreaming in the wakimg

The collision of waves

Breaking and returning 

From and to the endless sea 

Anticipation of intimacy 

Freedom to be 

Good bad and all the in betweens

Night moves 

Knight moves

God moves

All His promises

Finally fulfilled 

The inviaible visible

Between darkness and dawn

What lies beneath and beyond

And tomorrow 

Forever and a day

I saw the flashing lights of the ambulance
Reflecting in the window, and I knew
One more angel of death, another act of mercy
A release from the chains of painful life
That you could no longer stand nor bear
How do you feel now? I almost envy you
One moment in a lonely nursing home
Then suddenly in brilliant joy long forgotten
The rush of meeting your wife for the first time again
And the thrill of seeing God in all His glory
Leaving behind your cancer stricken body

With its mind a fading shadow of itself
No more tears, no more sorrow, just heavenly peace
That we the living cannot understand
And may never know.

It’s an old thought

But timeless

Come away with me

Away from this devil town

The world is so big

And places

They matter

We can drive

Until the gas runs out 

Or the roads no longer appear on the map

I’ll show you what I saw

And see things not yet seen

The illumination of the night and morning skies

Uncharted terrain

Waters, still and stormy

Your heart

Unlocked, set free

You’ve been here long enough

It is too small and safe

We’ll let God in

He can chart the course

Show the way 

And see where it all goes

The stars still shine in the dark

Stories to be written despite the past 

Joy to be stolen and found in sorrow 

The rebirthing of life

He sits on the sidewalk on a near empty beach
Playing for coins thrown into his open case
And the reason he’s here, no one knows
And the passers-by, they look into his eyes
And say what a waste
He plays rhythm for a traveling band
A couple thousand miles and one-night stands
Searching for meaning in this world
But the road keeps getting longer
And the lights, they blind his eyes
As he slowly fades away
Strumming in his room, playing night and day
You know, man, rock and roll is here to stay
Searching for his manhood and his soul
And the blues they tell a story
That words can never know

And cannot understand