tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76202922758683043322024-03-13T18:07:58.198-07:00Coming Back to MortalityMy mind works in mysterious ways! These are my thoughts about life, love, and God. These are not perfect, and are just my ramblings in a poetic manner. I hope they can inspire you, entertain you, and maybe even make you think. This is me, Coming Back to Mortality. Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-84893477506007567262016-05-07T01:49:00.000-07:002016-05-07T01:49:06.352-07:00A Crack in the Foundation<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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"Sooner or later you'll find out there's a hole in the wall. Sooner or later you'll find out that you'll dream to be that small." ~ Switchfoot</blockquote>
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~ A Crack in the Foundation ~</h4>
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In the past there is a suspicious space between the wall and the door.</div>
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A crack that appears to be broken, more so than it should.</div>
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Splintering and weaving, creating more lines than healing.</div>
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<span class="">This space is all you had left before you hit the floor.</span></div>
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<span class="">Under the blood shot eyes of lovers dreams.</span></div>
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<span class="">Through the dark places of family screams.</span></div>
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<span class=""><span class="">Into the depths of friendships in toil. </span></span></div>
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There lies a hope, that could fix this scene.</div>
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Ripping and tearing and become more than what it once was.</div>
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An increase of space in between the lines.</div>
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What is more sad than a foundation beginning to die?</div>
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What is more sad than hope that feels so far away?</div>
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Together and alone.</div>
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Crowds of people yet morose.</div>
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Hands falling on hands.</div>
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And lips being used to kiss and betray.</div>
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Our lives are but one tale.</div>
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All woven and created.</div>
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A canvas being created for more than this life.</div>
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And in the cracks there is a way to repair what has been lost.</div>
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Do not overthrow your lover.</div>
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Do not seek out hate against your brother.</div>
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Do not try and one up the other.</div>
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For love is what will bind, not this scalpel coming down.</div>
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Stitch it up and forgive to get better.</div>
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Love more than self to show you can love one another.</div>
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For the bloodshot eyes need not apply.</div>
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When it comes to those who are on or have crossed your eye.</div>
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Let your present be more than that of your past.</div>
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Do not be defined by what you did but by what you do.</div>
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Hello sweet melodies of love and daring.</div>
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Goodbye to the curse that parries all of your caring.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-49504368413797123922016-04-26T04:26:00.000-07:002016-04-26T04:26:47.335-07:00What is This Knocking?<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">"We won't stand for a facade."<br /> ~Say Anything</span></blockquote>
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My door is closed.</div>
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I have no intention to open this door.</div>
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Shut to the outsider,</div>
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Shut to the people around me.</div>
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Friends that try, fail.</div>
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Lovers who try, don't make it to the door.</div>
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I have been burned before.</div>
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I have felt the sting that comes with friendship.</div>
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Surface level friendship is not friendship at all.</div>
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The real me longing for more than a smile and a hello.</div>
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Craving love more than food.</div>
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And hoping that one day I will open the door.</div>
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What is this knocking?</div>
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Who made it this far?</div>
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It continues.</div>
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It perseveres.</div>
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My door is closed.</div>
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And I have made myself alone.</div>
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Trying to love.</div>
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Trying for more.</div>
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A shut door is not a policy that works at all.</div>
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The real me has no chance to be, if I do not say hello to love.</div>
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Craving love more than this world.</div>
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And hoping for hope to open the door.</div>
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I am alone.</div>
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I am...</div>
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Where is the I Am...?</div>
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I am retreating back.</div>
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Beyond the darkness...I am.</div>
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There it is again.</div>
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That knock.</div>
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Again...again...</div>
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Should I go...go and maybe not be alone?</div>
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For surface level friendship is not friendship at all.</div>
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A shut door is not a policy that works at all.</div>
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Craving the I Am...and knowing that the knocking is from Love.</div>
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Hand on the knob...a creak...a light...</div>
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Hello...</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-70241174867622849202016-04-11T20:13:00.000-07:002016-04-11T20:13:25.627-07:00When We Grow, it Happens Fast and Slow<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
"If we only got one try, if we we've only got one life, if time was never on our side, well before I die I wanna burn out bright." ~Switchfoot</blockquote>
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Winter has ended and spring has arrived.</div>
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The ice in our hearts is melting away.</div>
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The storms of life are turning from snow to rain.</div>
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And our spirit is in its prime to grow. </div>
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Actions define who we are.</div>
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Bitter, joyful, angry, humble.</div>
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How we react to situations shows others who we are.</div>
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And who are you, and who am I?</div>
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In thee seasons we are growing.</div>
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If God is in our lives, we will have to grow.</div>
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<span class="">Sometimes it is fast.</span></div>
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Other times it is slow.</div>
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Are we becoming what we are meant to be?</div>
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Will we bless people who come our way?</div>
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<span class="">Or do they shy away from what we have to say?</span></div>
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<span class="">Are our branches inviting in those who wish to believe?</span></div>
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<span class="">When we come into contact with others,</span></div>
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When we are by ourselves,</div>
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<span class="">We have the opportunity to get closer to God.</span></div>
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To grow and get stronger in Love.</div>
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Today is today.</div>
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Tomorrow is too late.</div>
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Action takes the now.</div>
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And tomorrow won't be fast enough.</div>
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God save me from myself.</div>
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Save me from my disbelief.</div>
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Help me to begin today.</div>
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God save me from me.</div>
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Time will not be on your side.</div>
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Time always moves forward.</div>
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To trust in Love in the now.</div>
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To be what you were meant to be.</div>
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God I pray, take all my errors.</div>
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God I pray, do a work in me.</div>
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<span class="">Love I pray, engulf me in your life giving light.</span></div>
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To grow in the season you have set before me.</div>
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And when the inevitable winter comes.</div>
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Help me through those days as well.</div>
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To continue to trust in you.</div>
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As I wait, learn, and pray for spring to come back my way. </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-23028633201056006952016-03-21T22:20:00.001-07:002016-03-21T22:30:59.871-07:00You Have Legs...Use Them<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span class=""><span class="">"I Will Not Pretend That We Are All Friends, When All Of Us Know That We'Re Not. And I Am Afraid Of Pulling My Name, Away From The Places I Know I'Ve Been On This Slow Down Descent." </span></span><span class=""><span class=""> ~ Deas Vail</span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="">In moments like these I hope too much.</span></div>
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<span class="">I dream up responses that let go of, instead of holding on.</span></div>
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The hope does not seem to be as real as it once was.</div>
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This is where my faith needs to take over and show me how to believe.</div>
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<span class="">Targeting the balance of the left and the right.</span></div>
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Taking up arms against the heart.</div>
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And taking shots at the mind.</div>
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Duck and cover for this world is gonna blow.</div>
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It will rise up in flame.</div>
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It will enter into the line that was never supposed to be crossed.</div>
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A little further down the road.</div>
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A little to close to Hell.</div>
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<span class="">In moments like these, I wish to much.</span></div>
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<span class="">I see the stars and remember not all of them are real.</span></div>
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I hope, hope decides that it will manifest out of me.</div>
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Even when I need to reach deep down inside while I flee.</div>
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The shot is lined up after I moved from the right to the left.</div>
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Finger on the trigger.</div>
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The pulse is the beat.</div>
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Duck and cover for this world is gonna blow.</div>
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Enter in and enter out.</div>
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Move your butt to a better place.</div>
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Enter in enter out.</div>
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Regret does nothing but get in the way.</div>
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String along brilliant acts.</div>
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Get together and breathe in more than contrition.</div>
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Break down the fence that is holding you back.</div>
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Take the shot and bring yourself to a place of happiness.</div>
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In moments like these I am a kid that knows his place.</div>
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<span class="">In moments like these this Hell transforms into something worthwhile.</span></div>
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<span class="">While the hope secures faith.</span></div>
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<span class="">And the faith depends on how much I wish to represent my belief.</span></div>
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Doubt equals a soul who chose it over believing.</div>
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Two sides of the same coin. </div>
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Both used for target practice.</div>
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Duck and cover for this world is going to blow.</div>
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Erase it and move on.</div>
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Learn and travel further.</div>
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Hope for the faith that is inside all. </div>
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For it is better to live than to stand still.</div>
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You have legs ... Use them. </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-56099901656269617202016-03-13T22:21:00.000-07:002016-03-13T22:21:29.067-07:00What Voice is it?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span class=""><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the final day I die, I want to hold my head up high. I want to tell You that I tried to live it like a song. And when I reach the other side, I want to look you in the eye and know I have arrived in a world where I belong. ~ Switchfoot</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All in all it is a place where you wonder if what you heard is from the right source.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A dissonance between what you think is going on and the guilt flooding your chest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A string strikes tomorrow while you hear it today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The drum bellows and is lingering while the soul tries to figure out what to do next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Is it okay to limit what is spoken to you if you are unsure if the source is pure?</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family: inherit;">Is it right to determine a factor based on self, rather than relying on something that may be untrue?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Clarity is what I seek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And clarity is what I will find one day.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family: inherit;">If I am thinking this hard about the voice, then maybe it was from the correct place?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But I thought it would be a still quiet voice?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This was loud.</span></div>
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<span class="" style="font-family: inherit;">This was something I have experienced before and it ended up to be right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But the other time it was wrong.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here lies the confusion of the music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">To live it like a song is harder than you think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When the music comes from multiple genres.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A rock and roll kind of day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mixed with a classical peace throughout the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But other times that peace is only when I am near others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And the night becomes a heavy metal link to my brain and my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Taking a chance and distinguishing the flames that have occurred in the studio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hoping to be able to lean on others to incorporate more sounds into my song.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I will carry on the beat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And I need another to help with the rhythm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Music equals the melody of the soul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Music is an instrument of the voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But what voice am I hearing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And if I ignore it with something this small, will I be alright? </span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-48206758528765017672016-02-18T02:55:00.001-08:002016-02-18T18:40:03.586-08:00Tomorrow Gets Me Through the Past<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span class=""><span class=""><span class="">"They left us alone, the kids in the dark to burn out forever, or light up a spark. We come together state of the art. We'll never surrender, the kids in the dark. So let the world sing, 'What a shame beautiful scars on critical veins. 'Come together state of the art. We'll never surrender. "</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tomorrow equals new experiences.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244293" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><span class="">Tomorrow</span></span></span><span class=""> IS the narrow versus the Broad.</span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244294" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><span class=""><span class="">Tomorrow</span></span></span></span><span class=""><span class=""> IS a choice That reinvents Itself as the events Get Closer.</span></span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A smile filling my eyes as I learn to discover rather than cower.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">More of this and that.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And less of that and this.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="">For </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244298" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><span class="">tomorrow</span></span></span><span class=""> IS the Day That starts yesterday. </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244298" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"></span></span> <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finding out that fear is no longer part of my arsenal.<u></u><u></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;">A smile filling my face as I learn to drive and not let go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A smile that tells me that running away is not the answer.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A moment of jubilee when I realize that letting go is just another part of the day.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For letting go is a double edged sword used for the good and for the tarnished.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The past, present, and the future.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All rolled into one caring moment where the choice is made.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As I run and not let myself equal the impossible.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even though I miss and I mourn.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even as I am filled with sadness that I will not get to see them.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know they are safe.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know that life takes a strange path to find an answer that was always there.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here I go weeping for joy.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="">Here I go dancing this day into the next.</span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="">Here I go taking in feeling and using it for good.</span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="">Here I Go looking for </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244301" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><span class="">tomorrow</span></span></span><span class=""> Which IS just like looking for today. </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244301" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"></span></span> <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244300" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><span class="">Tomorrow</span></span></span><span class=""> IS the path less Traveled and more Traveled by others.</span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244302" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><span class=""><span class="">Tomorrow</span></span></span></span> <span class=""><span class=""> IS missing the ones I hold Dearest.</span></span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But for now I tell you I love you.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="">I love you more than you know.</span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="">But we know, that we are never not together.</span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class=""><span class="">Because </span></span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244305" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><span class=""><span class="">tomorrow</span></span></span></span><span class=""><span class=""> IS where the memories and the Present collide to form the new and exciting.</span></span> <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244305" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"></span></span> <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_647244303" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;"><span class=""><span class="">Tomorrow</span></span></span></span> IS a <span class=""><span class="">lways in the Past and the Now.</span></span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So get up and dance to the new.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="">Dance to the present, and the past.</span><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So get up and dance to the undecided.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span class=""><span class="" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because we all know that the meaning will be with us and reveal itself when our eyes stop looking. </span></span><br />
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<span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But please do not stop looking at the same stars.</span></span></span><br />
<span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or even the same sun and moon.</span></span></span><br />
<span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">For even if the sun is a star.</span></span></span><br />
<span class=""><span class=""><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is the one that will truly guide me home. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-7187668361242265852016-02-02T07:44:00.000-08:002016-02-02T07:44:42.336-08:00What We Lost(What Was There)<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">
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"I need you. Like the dragonfly's wings need the wind. Like the orphan needs home once again. Like Heaven needs more to come in." ~Copeland</blockquote>
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Bow our heads and meditate on what is gone.</div>
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We then forgot and moved on from what we found was true.</div>
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We now build these walls that tower above the sky.</div>
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We hide inside trying to forget what has dissipated.</div>
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Weeping next to nothing because we are too scared to try.</div>
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We weep to forget that once we had faith.</div>
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So what else is lost?</div>
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Hope, love, and purpose.</div>
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We lost it all because we took it for granted.</div>
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We did this instead of remembering and using what we once knew to be true.</div>
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Do not let yourself die, when life is just on the next hill over.</div>
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These walls can be torn down.</div>
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When you look there could be writing on the wall.</div>
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But what will it say?</div>
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History repeats itself.</div>
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Which one will repeat for us?</div>
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Will you learn to tear down the prison you have built?</div>
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Or will the writing spell out your demise?</div>
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Where does your trust lie?</div>
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I choose mercy, and I choose to reclaim what I lost.</div>
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For when I do this I have someone to rely on.</div>
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For when I do this I am not alone.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-30037463844488807152016-02-02T07:34:00.000-08:002016-02-02T07:34:17.427-08:00In Front of You?<div dir="ltr">
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"Everyday a choice is made. Everyday I choose my fate." ~Switchfoot</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">~In Front of You~</span></h2>
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Emotions fly like the birds in the sky. </div>
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Running and jumping spreading wings and denying once or twice. </div>
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Prayers thrown up and caught not being allowed to make it to Heaven. </div>
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Emotions that fly, where faith has been replaced by human desire. </div>
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What do you do when a furnace is placed in front of you? </div>
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Will your emotions save you? </div>
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When the fire melts and burns you. </div>
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Even before you are pushed in. </div>
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The compromise will come. </div>
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The time to choose what you truly believe. </div>
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Is it the testimony of Christ? </div>
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Or will it be the compromise that took your soul by surprise. </div>
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Truth is not always popular. </div>
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It is usually in direct defiance to the norms of the world.</div>
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Truth is set before our eyes like glasses to help us see. </div>
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Truth is a fire that is more powerful than any furnace placed by men. </div>
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This furnace can be used by the maker. </div>
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It can be used to destroy the ties binding you hands. </div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-84459926069135716092016-02-02T07:27:00.000-08:002016-02-02T07:27:17.400-08:00Making it So<blockquote class="tr_bq">
But I met God on the street tonight. And He said, 'Choose your battles wisely, or you'll never find me.'" ~House of Heroes</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />~Making it So</span>~</h2>
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Justice resulting in righteousness. </div>
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Righteousness becoming a saving hand. <br />
A newborn child learning how to crawl. <br />
Learning to know, that only one can save your soul. </div>
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A wave pours over the heads of the unjust. <br />
Washing away the folly of our souls. <br />
Battered by truth. <br />
Healed by the pain that brings hope. </div>
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What I have is nothing. <br />
What I do means nothing. <br />
It is meaningless unless it is done by and for the other side. <br />
Unless I let the wave engulf my lack of true understanding. </div>
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I do not compare to perfection. <br />
I am the furthest away from this concept.<br />
But if there is One who is, why would I not worship? </div>
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The sin that I do. </div>
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The mistakes I make. <br />
They will be passionately judged by the almighty. <br />
I do not have a chance against His perfection. </div>
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God does not get pushed down. </div>
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Unlike us, we suppress the truth. <br />
The truth of the water. <br />
The truth of knowledge that has been shown plainly. </div>
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We see the truth and run in the opposite direction. </div>
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It is known in nature and in words that the God of Redemption is truth. <br />
Yet, we run, we run... <br />
God why do we run from you? </div>
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Why is it so hard to believe? </div>
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Why do we despise the One who gave it all? <br />
Why are we afraid to believe?<br />
We know the truth but our morality naturally gets in the way. </div>
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And yet, the wave comes to purify our rebellion. </div>
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We run into the water to be washed clean. <br />
Because God is Love. <br />
Because the Holy one makes it so. <br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-73218805735313962772016-01-11T13:02:00.004-08:002016-01-11T13:03:14.040-08:00Absolute<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"We want the truth, give us the absolute. We need your help, 'cause we've got nothing left to lose. I know we've tried this thing a million times, but put me out 'cause I'm on fire."</blockquote>
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<b> ~Thousand Foot Krutch</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <u>Absolute</u></span></b></h2>
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We are to live accordance to an absolute. <br />
An absolute defined by commandments.<br />
An absolute created out of love. <br />
We will live and obey, the absolute defined by my Savior. </div>
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There is a forest that grows at an alarming pace. <br />
Weeds, thorns,and vines. <br />
This is the forest known as life. <br />
A place where all our troubles grow and grow. </div>
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Yet we have a hope that one day we can make it through. <br />
To walk free and make it to the forest's edge. <br />
The edge to the other side. <br />
An absolute in accordance to truth, hope, and love. </div>
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We need to obey Love not men. <br />
We must obey faith in the truth, rather than a speculation made from mortals mouths. <br />
To hold onto the one we killed. <br />
To accept the plan that is chosen everyday. </div>
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Running into truths. <br />
Running from truths. <br />
Retreating from the dance. <br />
No, let's retreat into the hands who created the song and the dance.</div>
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To be new and believe. </div>
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To cast aside doubt. <br />
To let the pain fuel our Hope. <br />
To let Love in and to stick to the absolute. </div>
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The absolute that the world does not accept. <br />
For the world does not like being told what to do. <br />
They must do it. <br />
They must be the ones to tread these lands. </div>
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I choose to be more than what this world has told me to be.<br />
I choose to have a guiding hand. <br />
I choose to trust in Love's<br />
I choose to obey in the One who gave it all. </div>
absolute. <div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-42456727764023280512016-01-06T07:41:00.000-08:002016-01-07T06:55:20.091-08:00It is Going to Be Okay"The Devil will proudly pay your way to Hell."<br />
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~Pastor Kenneth Martin</div>
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The world is alone.</div>
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It is alone in the dark.</div>
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Discovered and created in light.</div>
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But now tarnished and washed over by onyx and shadows.</div>
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The powers that be, and the governments are bathed in dark.</div>
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People revel in the black and their hope is in themselves.</div>
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They do not see the small light in the distance.</div>
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The one that will become brighter the more you pray and believe.</div>
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History is being manipulated.</div>
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Prayer is being forced out.</div>
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Prayer comes back during a crisis, but dies with the passing of time.</div>
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History is what the media makes it, not what has happened.</div>
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Do not be deceived.</div>
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That light can still be obtained.</div>
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Even when you have been taken away.</div>
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Even when the society makes this soil look better than the Lords.</div>
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Faith is not always convenient.</div>
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Faith will put you at odds with this soil.</div>
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We do not belong on this land.,</div>
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We are living as immigrants tilling this land until we are brought home.</div>
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Absolutes are poison to the ears of this world.</div>
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God is not relative, He is absolute.</div>
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Commandments are meant to be followed.</div>
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Commandments are meant to be obeyed and not taken as a suggestion.</div>
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One step closer to the end.</div>
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Once step closer to understanding why we hope in spite of the pain.</div>
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One step closer to finding out why we pray.</div>
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One step closer to the healing call.</div>
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This world is alone.</div>
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It is bleak in its pleasures.</div>
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Do not be deceived by what they say you need.</div>
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This world is lonely.</div>
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And it is okay when you understand your family is in the Lord.</div>
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And it is in others who love Him . . . like me. </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-9368343407919741472016-01-02T20:28:00.000-08:002016-01-03T18:50:41.206-08:00Will I See You on the Other Side?<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">And a God of redemption could break our routine.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ~Switchfoot</span></blockquote>
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Two ways are laid in front of people. </div>
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One is the way of righteousness.</div>
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One is the way of wickedness.</div>
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A gray light, a gray dark does not exist. </div>
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Is it possible to be happy?</div>
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Is joy a myth?</div>
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Are blessings ever worth the fight?</div>
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Are blessings created by actions and choices?</div>
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The lasting moments of happiness begin with a choice.</div>
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A choice to dive into fire turning into water. </div>
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To leap instead of doing nothing.</div>
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Learning to wait when immediate action will cause strife. </div>
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Do we choose to sleep instead of think.</div>
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Do we include their ways into ours,</div>
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Or do we influence our ways into theirs. </div>
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An attack from the left, and the right.</div>
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Deceptive pleasure that can seep into the marrow of our bones. </div>
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Laughing at words that once disgusted the soul.</div>
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A compromise that should never be made. </div>
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We must use the fire to burn it, and the water to wash it away. </div>
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Something has been present since this world began. </div>
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It is what the law of the universe has been based on.</div>
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It is also what can save your soul.</div>
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The beginning the end, the alpha and omega.</div>
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A word that has always been there.</div>
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A choice to accept it.</div>
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A word that is both fire and water.</div>
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The word that turns seeds into trees. </div>
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When the heart is not in it.</div>
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When the mind over thinks.</div>
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That is when the seed dies.</div>
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That is when the roots refuse to grow deep.</div>
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But when it works there are defining characteristics.</div>
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Everyone knows what they are by the fruit on its branches.</div>
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The flowers that sprout.</div>
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The undying nature of worship versus pride.</div>
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There are defining choices in our world.</div>
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Do you choose a life that has an end that is not defended?</div>
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Or do you choose the life that gives us a defense?</div>
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A life built by fire and by water.</div>
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The wicked may seem like they are winning in this life.</div>
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They may seem joyous.</div>
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Do not be deceived. </div>
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For in the end the choice they have made will lead them to a place not filled with love, faith, and happiness. </div>
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This can be a sad tale.</div>
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Or it can be good.</div>
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It is well with my soul.</div>
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When I burn for Love and swim in Hope.</div>
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Go and choose.</div>
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This life or another.</div>
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Go and choose. </div>
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And I hope to see you on the other side. </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-74075803169452153312015-12-21T07:43:00.003-08:002015-12-21T09:57:45.792-08:00What is Christmas? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">~What is Christmas?~</span></h2>
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The Word that comes down to penetrate hearts. </div>
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The Word that became flesh for you and for me. </div>
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To be more than a man. </div>
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To be more than God.</div>
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The creator that became both. </div>
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For you. </div>
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For us. </div>
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The creator, the word, our Savior, the child born. </div>
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Why would someone be born to die? </div>
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Is it not because they love us? </div>
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Why would the creator become fully man? </div>
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Is it not because we are his children?</div>
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There is hope on the inside. </div>
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There is hope when you turn your eyes to the true outside. </div>
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The heavenly hosts celebrate when we believe. </div>
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When hope is strong and the fear of God purifies all of you and me. </div>
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Sanctified and filled. </div>
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Sanctified and set apart. </div>
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Sanctified to be closer to the fear of our Savior. </div>
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Sanctification as a gift to save us from our sins. </div>
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We do this in preparation for the day when death is washed away. </div>
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When every tear is dried up. </div>
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When pain is taken away. </div>
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We do this for the Alpha and the Omega. </div>
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For His true water that always quenches thirst. </div>
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For Christmas is more than the presents. </div>
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It is more than the tree. </div>
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Christmas is a promise from God. </div>
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It is a time to celebrate the true gift that He gave us, when He was born to die for you and for me.</div>
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When He was born to bring life to those who were wishing to flee. </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-65157822754024741492015-12-13T17:39:00.001-08:002015-12-13T17:56:06.597-08:00Never Give Up<blockquote class="tr_bq">
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"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."</div>
<span class="author3">~ Ralph Waldo Emerson</span><span class="product-links"></span>
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The world is not on your side. <br />
It wants you to fail. </div>
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The world is against you. <br />
It wants you to fall. </div>
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This place throws rocks at you when you try and do what you were meant to do. <br />
You can be beaten and scarred. <br />
The ship that never makes it to shore.<br />
The plane the doesn't find land. </div>
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Downtrodden and beaten down. <br />
Unable to sleep. <br />
Unable to have a descent meal. <br />
Broken, hurt, and seeing visions of wood and blood. </div>
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The next section is one of a man who is down. <br />
A man who is trying not to give up. <br />
One who is searching for it. <br />
For what? For truth. </div>
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Where are you God when nothing is going right? <br />
Where are you when the fire licks up. <br />
When the earth splits open and swallows me. <br />
And I fall not seeing where the bottom is. </div>
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God what happens when I point a gun at your head? <br />
What happens when I turn it on myself?<br />
When nothing seems to be going right, <br />
And the world looks sweeter than you? </div>
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You tell me that you love me. <br />
And that love is sufficient. <br />
I wonder what would happen if I truly let you in?<br />
If I listened and responded instead of hearing and ignoring?</div>
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I have this to tell you sir... <br />
Never give up. <br />
Fight for God<br />
Fight for your right to choose love instead of hate. </div>
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The world will not win when this life ends. </div>
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Pain makes you stronger. <br />
The hurt is used to strengthen the resolve of Love. <br />
Suffering is what it takes to fight and to win. </div>
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Never give up on life. </div>
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Endure and create your character. <br />
When you are at the end of your rope,<br />
Get your eyes off of this world and put your eyes on God. </div>
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For this world is doing you no favors. </div>
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Never give up. <br />
Hope can come from the pain. <br />
Hope is what comes from suffering, and that pain brings love as you endure and reap what is sown.</div>
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Never give up. </div>
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Let Love win. <br />
Never give up. <br />
Fight for your right to never back down. </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-86207613767986546922015-12-12T23:43:00.003-08:002015-12-12T23:43:54.912-08:00Ocean of Mirrors (Poem From High School)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ocean of Mirrors</span></i></h2>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://yy1.staticflickr.com/4145/4999886729_9597209578_z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://yy1.staticflickr.com/4145/4999886729_9597209578_z.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Forming
waves on the shorelines as my dreams drift away. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Makeing mistakes and throwing
them in. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
No one at the beach but me for I see past the glass, I see past my own
image...</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
and the
ocean of mirrors reflect every part of me. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
The ocean of mirrors make you see
your true self. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Oh, that ocean of mirrors what do you see, what do you see?</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
A burnt
down town of false believers. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
A burnt down society running from it all. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
A burnt
down community losing their souls. They saw what they didn’t want...</div>
<div class="Standard">
<br /></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
and the
ocean of mirrors reflect every part of me. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
The ocean of mirrors make you see
your true self. </div>
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Oh, that ocean of mirrors what do you see, what do you see?</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Lighthouse
rays shooting down reflections past the surface of mirrors. </div>
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Seeing what’s
below. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Looking inside is what counts believe me or not, believe or not. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Ships
are not sailing they’re scared of what they will find. </div>
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Shattering glass of the
mirrors make it possible, but I’ll always remember...</div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
the ocean
of mirrors that reflected every part of me. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
The ocean of mirrors that made you
see your true self. </div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
Oh, that ocean of mirrors what did you see, what did you
see?</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-17558651668258562772015-12-11T10:53:00.001-08:002015-12-11T10:53:48.896-08:00I Fell in Love and All I Got Was a T-shirt (Poem From High School)<div class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><u>I Fell in Love and All I Got Was a T-shirt</u></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Soaring
in the air, my thoughts keep going to the one I fell in love with. </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Flying in
the plane going away from the town where we met outside a school, realizing who
I was. Brought together by a friendship that should’ve lasted a lifetime, but I
didn’t mean to fall in love. </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Now I leave with only a T-shirt, a broken heart,
a broken down feeling of love.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Moving
away from the love of my friends to another town I know nothing of. </div>
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I’m going
to dance all the pain away never looking back to the one I fell in love with. </div>
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Brought together by a friendship that should’ve lasted a lifetime, but I didn’t
mean to fall in love. </div>
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Now I leave with only a T-shirt, a broken heart, a
broken down feeling of love.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Do I love
her, do I love her, or can I move onto the town I’m going to? </span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Do I love her, do
I love her, or can I move onto the town I’m going to?</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Brought
together by a friendship that should’ve lasted a lifetime, but I didn’t mean to
fall in love. Now I leave with only a T-shirt, a broken heart, a broken
down feeling of love.</div>
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<br /></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I’m going
away now never looking back to the love that should’ve never happened.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I think
maybe I will see her one more time.</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-41741502672934540122015-12-10T13:06:00.003-08:002015-12-10T13:06:37.962-08:00The Music of the Stars (Poem From High School)<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: 'CAC Krazy Legs';"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Music
of the Stars</span></span></i></h2>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">I hear it
every day and I analyze and listen to the sound. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">It floods my ears and I get
lost in the moment, like comfort hugs on a rainy day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">To mirror an
image in your mind after a sound of joyous feeling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">I am watching the scars of
emptiness wash away as I listen to the music of the stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">Tearing to
pieces and making it better for my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">Holding the wreckage and casting away
bad words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div align="center" class="Standard" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">The thinking
of others and long awaited dreams are no one else's. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">But my own words are my
passion as I listen to the music of the stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">Notes and bars
are all sung in one accord, of letting things be better today and letting out
cries that I know. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">And you’re hoping to sing, but your heart is not into it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">Your mind is
to numb to let go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: '@Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;">If you let me I'll show my heart to yours as I sing
you the music you the stars.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-9357043292443418642015-12-09T08:02:00.001-08:002015-12-09T08:53:51.611-08:00Lifting Spirit (Poem From High School)<div class="Standard">
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Lifting Spirit</span></i></h2>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></i></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Let’s
look past our differences on the gates of imperfection. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Let’s hold hands to
face what may come next. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Forever light will shine, a glimmer and a shine
through strong eyes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Seeing is not believing, but faith will bring us through.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Into hard times, </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">And into good we all face. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">With my love failing sometimes. </span></span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">But I’ll
be crawling back in due time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Sometimes
I’m looking for a back door to escape the pressures of this world. </span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">I should
know by now that your unfailing love will see me through. </span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Open mouth but no
sound is coming. </span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Show me your power and authority.</span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">No time can tell the
coming of our Lord. </span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">So I’ll wait.</span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="color: #bf9000;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">You’re looking down on me seeing me make my
mistakes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">You’re looking down on me seeing me do your will. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">I’m standing then
falling to my knees as I cry out and say I love </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">As I lift up my hands to
worship. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Now thanks and take, God thanks and takes me.</span></span></div>
<div class="Standard">
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">I love you, God I
love you.</span></span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-86982752063064980172015-12-08T07:03:00.000-08:002015-12-10T13:09:51.182-08:00Forest of Green (Poem From High School)<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Forest of <span style="color: #38761d;">Green</span></span></i></div>
</div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></span></i></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">In a
forest of </span><span style="color: #38761d; text-indent: 0.5in;">green </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">the only</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> color standing out, dominating each part. </span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">No </span><span style="color: blue; text-indent: 0.5in;">blue</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">, no </span><span style="color: #cc0000; text-indent: 0.5in;">red,</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d; text-indent: 0.5in;">green</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
is all you see. </span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Forward-moving makes it seem you only need you.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Know though
</span><span style="color: #38761d; text-indent: 0.5in;">green</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> is not all. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Look for the colors of beauty in things.</span></div>
</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Don’t
dull out your life for false inhibitions. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Don’t dull your life for every
wonderful looking someone. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">In a forest of </span><span style="color: #38761d; text-indent: 0.5in;">green</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> your eyes are closed, your eyes
can’t open. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Nothing is right. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Nothing
will ever be the way you want it to be.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">During
these times believe in more than the </span><span style="color: #38761d; text-indent: 0.5in;">green</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> of wealth. </span></div>
</div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Let loose your soul to
see many colors this world has to offer. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">In a forest of </span><span style="color: #38761d; text-indent: 0.5in;">green</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> your eyes will
bleed out for comfort, </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">But none will come.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">You’re
lying on the ground with a lie at hand waiting to explode.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Out of proportion it
will stretch seeming like nothing. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">But being everything in a forest of </span><span style="color: #38761d; text-indent: 0.5in;">green</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">,
what will unfold? </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Diving deep in a sea of that color.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Death
comes in all your lies you told. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">You’ll die alone in an aftermath you could
change your eyelids soon enough.</span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">In a forest of </span><span style="color: #38761d; text-indent: 0.5in;">green</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> there is still a chance
to see more colors. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The creatures can be </span><span style="color: #bf9000; text-indent: 0.5in;">gold</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> or </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; text-indent: 0.5in;">white</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">. Embrace the colors of
your life. </span></div>
</div>
<div class="Standard" style="text-align: left;">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Why don’t you embrace the colors of you life?</span></div>
</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-59830107180287626912015-12-03T08:17:00.000-08:002015-12-07T07:03:54.682-08:00Is it Safer to do Nothing at All?<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: left;">
<b>"What if my dreams do not happen? Would I just change what I've told my friends? I don't want to know who I would be, when I wake from a dreamer's dream."</b><b> </b>~Twenty-One Pilots</blockquote>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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Dreams are meant to be broken and reborn again. </div>
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To be slept on and woken up into.</div>
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A gauge of how much you mean to yourself.</div>
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An undeniable drive to see what you are are striving for.</div>
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For dreams are made by what you want.</div>
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The desires of a heart beyond my own.</div>
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I choose my fate every time I wake.</div>
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I cry out and wonder where is the direction I seek.</div>
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Sometimes Love has us wait.</div>
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We must be patient and realize it is not in our time.</div>
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We may choose fate, but time does not let us choose a side.</div>
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It carries on until the game is done. </div>
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What happens if I do not reach what I am reaching for?</div>
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Does that mean that my dream was not true?</div>
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Is this the death of a dream?</div>
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Is it time for it to become new?</div>
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Dreams are meant to be broken and reborn again. </div>
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To be made out of sand.</div>
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Once the heat rises and the mix is in place,</div>
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The sand turns to glass and we hope it does not shatter in our face.</div>
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Is it safer to do nothing at all?</div>
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Is it safer to just sit in my room?</div>
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When this world wants to fall down.</div>
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That is when I think I should get up and move.</div>
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Sometimes Love has us wait.</div>
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Sometimes Love says to run.</div>
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Run towards what was placed inside our heart.</div>
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And even if we fail we need to get up and run again.</div>
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For in everything we learn.</div>
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We learn when we fail and when we succeed.</div>
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As long as we try and learn how to bleed.</div>
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For dreams are meant to be broken and reborn again.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-39619646000297757332015-12-01T10:43:00.000-08:002015-12-03T07:00:21.780-08:00Why is Good Forgotten?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-large;">~Why is Good Forgotten?~</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">This journey is not for the faint of heart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">These moments take precedent over the rest.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">I have been given these moments to make things better.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">One step to the right as my body goes left.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">I am entrusted to give back and not just take.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6;">To go out and understand that the world does not want to accept me.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">To be a servant,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">And give, give, give.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Do I distrust my distrust?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Am I profound for the sake of me?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Or do I proliferate my gifts for others?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Do I go and bring change, joy, and hope for the joyless, and hopeless?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Salt that lacks taste.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Seeds that get planted next to rocks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Houses sinking in the sand.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Failing because you do not try.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">I have work to do.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">I have more to do in this life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">To serve and give to the poor.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">And to know I was chosen to cultivate the trees to grow fruit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Is it easy?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Will I love myself instead of others?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Is it easy?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">No, opposing forces will make you want to serve self instead of giving back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Good is not striven for anymore.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Pleasure is the new religion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Power, greed, sex, and money are the gods of our world.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Lovers of self, lovers of the gray.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">I would rather see it black and white.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">To know where you stand.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Not to muddle or blur lines.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">I would rather sacrifice than let it be easy and lose my soul.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Serving is not natural.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">It is a choice.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Every day going out and giving back.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Instead of praising God then spitting in people's faces.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Is this the world you wish to live in,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A place of pride;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A places of greed;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">A place where being blind to the truth leads to slaughter?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">This journey is not for the faint of heart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">But I would not have it any other way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Helping those in need.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Understanding what it truly means to be alive.</span></div>
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~Dashboard Confessional<br />
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A teenage vantage on a Midwest night.<br />
Being older than those times, yet feeling obliged.<br />
When your years have passed, and a crush has entered your mind.<br />
Maturity can be gained, but crushes stay the same.<br />
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I wake up and realize I had a dream that is lingering.<br />
It is a dream where I thought of her name.<br />
I breathe in to start my day<br />
And reflect on what will happen if I stay.<br />
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Hoping and praying for a chance meeting.<br />
The dream infecting every thought I am thinking.<br />
As I drive and sing songs that remind me of our first introduction. <br />
And I smile at the thought of this memory past.<br />
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The only problem I have come to find,<br />
Is a problem that is not life or death.<br />
A problem that goes back to teenage angst.<br />
A problem brought on by taste.<br />
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Why do I fall for country music girls?<br />
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A teenage vantage downtown in winter months.<br />
Being older than those times, yet wanting more.<br />
When years have gone by and the day stands still.<br />
Hoping and praying for a chance meeting.<br />
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When the heart sings to close.<br />
The mind wondering, what if?<br />
Building the friend and wishing to keep it.<br />
Even if a relationship fails to fit.<br />
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The only problem I have come to find,<br />
Is a problem that is petty and serious.<br />
A problem that goes beyond old teenage angst. <br />
A problem that presses forward to my particular tastes.<br />
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Why do I always fall for country music girls?<br />
Why is it the twang that catches their ears?<br />
Why do I fall for girls that sing the songs that I loathe?<br />
Why do I fall for country music girls?<br />
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A teenage vantage,<br />
And a teenage point of view.<br />
Narrow and closed in.<br />
Yet, I still wonder why...<br />
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Why I fall for country music girls.<br />
Why do I fall at the most inopportune times?<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-81645196211339383312015-11-22T16:06:00.002-08:002015-11-22T19:53:17.588-08:00Is it Okay to be This Small?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am a blip in the existence of the universe.</div>
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I am small even on Earth.</div>
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Yet, you love me.</div>
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Yet, you listen.</div>
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I lay on my back and look at the stars.</div>
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I see the beauty and majesty.</div>
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A galaxy that could be out to get me.</div>
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A galaxy filled with people I love.</div>
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Don't forget Love will find you.</div>
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It seeks you out and asks to be let in.</div>
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It comes to you even in this world so big.</div>
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Even in our mistakes and demons.</div>
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The cosmos spinning and dancing.</div>
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The dance of the heavens.</div>
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Spinning around and around.</div>
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Like a woman dancing on her wedding day.</div>
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I sow and wear the fig leaves to hide from Love.</div>
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I run to be lost even when I want to be found.</div>
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In this universe so large.</div>
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In this heart I wish I could save.</div>
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Love died to be alive again.</div>
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To save what I can't save.</div>
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In this town where I am so small.</div>
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In my room where I feel smaller.</div>
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When you love somebody let them know.</div>
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When you depart for a long trip don't hesitate to call.</div>
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You may be miles away, but we can be connected by love.</div>
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Believing that this universe is smaller than we think. </div>
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If I feel small, why do I look at the stars?</div>
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If the universe is so large, why do I search for it?</div>
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Because my faith is more than this world.</div>
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My faith is in Love that saved me. </div>
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I am a blip in the existence of the universe.</div>
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I am small even on Earth.</div>
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Yet, you listen. </div>
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Yet, you love me.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-10922905646898876592015-11-15T14:36:00.001-08:002016-03-21T22:38:37.270-07:00The Comfort of Anxiety <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">
"Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety."</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">~ The Comfort of Anxiety ~</span></h3>
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If I saw the maker face to face what would I ask? <br />
Would I fall at His feet? <br />
What desire or need would I ask on bent knee? <br />
Would I ask anything at all? </div>
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On my back I carry many things. <br />
I carry the insecurities that I call strength. <br />
I carry my doubt. <br />
I carry my mind and my heart as they battle for top billing on my back. </div>
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If I saw the maker what would I be willing to give to Him? <br />
What confession would I give Him to help lighten the load?<br />
Would I give Him anything? <br />
For if I gave Him something would I miss it? </div>
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Would I miss the comfort of my anxiety? <br />
Would I cry over my depression? <br />
Are my wounds friends that I wear proudly? <br />
Am I a blind man begging to see. </div>
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I have denied more than three times. <br />
It was at least four or five. <br />
I have inflicted more lashes on your back than forty. <br />
I have put you to death despite of grace. </div>
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I have crucified you more times than I can count. <br />
So if I was before you what would I do? <br />
I hope that I would thank you. <br />
I hope that I would let you take the bags I have placed on my back. </div>
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What if I saw the maker face to face? <br />
What if I was actually courageous? <br />
What if I was not afraid to see? <br />
Would I let you take the fear right out of me? </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620292275868304332.post-30023386979871264032015-11-12T08:54:00.001-08:002015-11-12T08:55:30.793-08:00Sing<blockquote class="tr_bq" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Sing with your head up, with your eyes closed. Not because you love the song because you love to sing."</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> ~Copeland</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">~Sing~</span></div>
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Nighttime escapades down at the local bar. </div>
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Every night the same story the same tune.</div>
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Singing for all the wrong reasons.</div>
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Because she doesn't know what she should be singing for.</div>
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Desires to run free from the pain.</div>
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Desires to be truly known by another.</div>
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Tears that fall once she arrives home.</div>
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For her home is not her home and her song is not her song.</div>
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A man leaves a trisk in the night of hotel lives.</div>
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Every night the same story the same tune</div>
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Looking for happiness instead of joy.</div>
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Because he doesn't know that joy is what he is looking for. </div>
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Desires to be free.</div>
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Desires to understand the plea.</div>
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Tears fall once he arrives home.</div>
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For his home is not his home and his song is not his song.</div>
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Two legs to stand on.</div>
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One mouth and one tongue to speak.</div>
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One heart and mind to reason and lie.</div>
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Two ears to place the world where you think it should be.</div>
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Desires to run free from pain.</div>
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Desires to be free.</div>
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Tears that fall once you are alone.</div>
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Because you don't know where your strength can come from.</div>
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Hitting the floor and looking for a way out.</div>
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The hurt that fakes its own death.</div>
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Trying to persuade you into deeper darker things.</div>
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When all you truly need to do is sing.</div>
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Looking for a song to replace the hurt.</div>
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Looking for a voice to use when downtrodden is your heart.</div>
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Taking a step forward and not taking one back.</div>
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This world is not fair so sing a song back.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">~Namaste~</div>Matt S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06426124467878660600noreply@blogger.com1