Mystery

Words: from Joi at The Door Magazine Chat Closet
Image: Morning Star by Tyrone Pow

In my experience, it's often those who profess to be agnostics that see God most clearly. Maybe because they are the only ones who acknowledge that they don't know what He is like. They can frequently see more clearly.

Isolation

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." --Sir Isaac Newton

Presence

Words: from Shadows by Ben Okafor
Image: from here

I travel steady on this long dirt track
My heart weighs heavy yet the heels won't crack
In a darkened corner I've seen a brand new star
And I have seen my shadows fall

I fly like an eagle, hungry for you
I wait like a hunter and a shepherd would
One day I'll be able to play this tune
And I will see my shadows fall


Shadows fall...I have seen all my shadows fall...

E pluribus Unum

Words: Never Gonna Be As Big As Jesus by Audio Adrenaline
Image: cover of The Clash of Fundamentalisms"

Never gonna be as big as Jesus...Never gonna hold the world in my hand...Never gonna be as big as Jesus...Never gonna build a promised land...

Never gonna be as big as Jesus...Never gonna hold the world in my hand...Never gonna be as big as Jesus...Never gonna build a promised land...

[Consumed]

Words: Human Shield by Training For Utopia
Image: "The Lamentation" by Dick Detzner

pin me up. stretch out the limbs. i'm your human shield. you've set out to feed, or feast. but not of you. no, you set me up. come, partake of me. without your permission, without your response come have me. come have at me. have all me. come have at me. have me. i don't need this cocoon. get in. feast. inside and out.

w[H]oleness

Words: Your Dying Soul by Mental Destruction
Image: "Burn" by Tanja Stark

Your Eyes My Eyes
So Very Close Together
Your Eyes My Eyes
The Pain Remains Forever?

Feel The Bolts Of Thunder
Driven Through My Flesh
Buried Deep Down Under
The Past You So Regret



My Fears Gathered
Around Your Dying Soul
Aching To Be Living
But Too Scared To Lose Control

With Both Eyes Bleeding
It Was Hard To See
Where The Path Was Leading
And Was It Ever Me?

The Future--Uplifting

When you find yourself lying
In a ditch on the side of the road
You might get ready
You might get ready to dream
When the sun comes up over the mountain
Flap your wings
When the sun comes up over the mountain
Fly

---from Flap Your Wings, The Choir

The Future--Uncertain

if it all comes true
and our dreams fall like bombs from the blue
oh my love stand by me

and if all comes real
confirming this fear that i feel
oh my love come stand by me
stand by me

---from If It All Comes True by Chagall Guevera

The future-- Wild

I search for method to my madness
But, alas, there seems to
No systematic type of anything at all
I fumble, I crawl
I grope in the darkness
I bounce off the wall
And I fear there ain't no prize winner here
No
I'm just a pilgrim on a journey through life
Wading in the river of joy and strife
And through some process
I've come to realize that
I must relinquish control

(The Pilgrim Song, Patsy Moore)

The future-- Seductive

in my delusions of grandeur i can do what i want to do be what i want to be delusions of grandeur lilfe is but a dream no impossibility as far as i can see no impossibility

---from Delusions of Grandeur by Fleming & John