Category: New Work 2023

My Voice

Where
Is my voice
The choice
I make
To sing
To you

Where is the heart
That pledged
To serve you

The night came
And all light
Vanished
I cried out
In the night

Where are you


I am lost
The cost
Of loving

Sometimes seems
A price too costly
To pay

Yet
I could not live
Without love
Giving
Receiving
The ebb and flow
In harmony
With my own heartbeat

Help me
Draw away
From the darkness
Gather my life
From the flotsam
The jetsam
The wreckage
Of my heart

For such is the price
Paid
For love
Without measure
A treasure
Beyond compare

When rage
Fear
Takes hold
Pulling me downwards
Hear my cry

Be with me
Rescue me


Give me strength
Give me peace
Give me hope

But most of all
Give me your love


Without love
I am dead
A shadow
A ghost

Moving through the world
Without purpose
Breathing but not living
You gave me breath

Life
And a heart
To love

When fear
Grips me
Squeezes my heart
Help me call
For I know
You alone
Can loosen its grip

And bid me come
And fall
Into your arms
Into your heart
And be one
In you

A Baby’s Cry

In the stillness
A whisper speaks
Smoke on the breeze
Speaks to a restless world
Love spoken, hovers over the world

A star
Shines brightly
In the winter sky
A baby’s cry
Love
Spoken
In a
Broken
World

Daggers drawn
Hearts torn
Bleeding
Love
Carried by a baby’s cry
Unfurls
To heal the world

Even broken
Whipped
Stripped
Bleeding
Love is spoken
Unfurled
In that broken
World

Tell me
Why
The cry
Of love
Goes unheeded?


Is fear
So ingrained in this broken world
The words
Whispered in creation
Spoken in salvation
Shouted when death’s chains
Were broken
Go unheard?

Still your heart
Let the word
Soothe your soul
Make you whole
For the whisper
The word
Is
Love