surrender
IN THIS LIFE (THAT YOU GAVE TO ME)
Chorus:
D
May you be exalted
A
May you be glorified
Em G
In this life that you gave to me
D
May your word be applied
Em G
In this life that you gave to me
D
may your will not be halted
Em G D
In this life that you gave to me
Verse 1:
G C D
Humble servant that I desperately want to be
C D
come before you on bended knees
G
Pleading Simply
(Chorus)
Verse 2:
If only humble servants we were
We'd come before you in tears
Pleading Simply
(Chorus 2xs)
Sweet Surrender
Someday, sweet surrender
You'll have me by your means
Will you take me softly?
Will you make me scream?
Someday, sweet surrender
Your laugh will be the last
Upon my deafening ears, linger
I'm falling to your grasp
Someday, sweet surrender
My memories will surface, tenfold
Hushing my mind to silence
A lonely descent into the cold
Someday, sweet surrender
The fireflies will fly, high
Above, below, around me
Ashes dance upon the sky
A Fever
Brilliant warm reds
caress the darkening sky
A fever pitch of
colored emotion
I am not at all
at peace
Pieces come un glu ed
with blue blurred
lines and a hopscotch
of memories
Spinning and spinning
Eyes upward, heart heartward, feet floating
I can swim but sometimes drowning scares
the hell out of me
Inside. I stay there often; too often.
Too often, time is reduced to
tentative and fleeting moments.
Brilliant warm reds
caress the darkening sky
A fevered pitch of
colored emotion
I am not at all at peace
Pieces come un glu ed
Though, sometimes-
the glow of sunshine
defrosts my thoughts
and devastates my
structured palace
The walls, they tumble down
And, in the span of two small breaths
I step outside
to not just watch
but to become.
Two small breaths
-Laughter
Two small breaths
-Joy
Two small breaths
-Surrender
Two small breaths
-Drowning
Spinning and spinning
Eyes upward, heart heaving, feet frantic
The heavy drum of heartache
beats beats beats
I can swim
but only
if I stay inside
Only, inside.
14 Poems: No Asterisks, Surrender Is Merging, No Future, Making Amends and 10 Other Poems
14 POEMS
-saiom shriver-
NO ASTERISKS
*
Thou Shalt Not Kill does not have the word 'humans' after it.
We are asked to kill no being.
*
Footnote: Jesse Ventura: Thou shalt not kill is not asterisked
with exceptions
SURRENDER IS MERGING
*
Surrender is not coercion but merging in the
River of Love which flows us
to the Sea of All Love.
*
NO FUTURE
*
When stock markets invest in pork futures, they do not
care about the future of the pigs. When ancient Romans
with auspices subdivided sheep entrails to foretell their destinies,
they were not interested in the destinies of the sheep.
*
MAKING AMENDS
*
we have many fish to unfry... and to resurrect
*
BAYER MAKER OF ASPIRIN CAUSES PAIN TO COUNTLESS MILLIONS
*
Bayer kills bees with apicides
Bayer kills birds with avicides
Bayer makes starlicides.. killing starlings
Bayer kills frogs and many living beings.
*
FT CAMPBELL KENTUCKY
*
Ft Campbell Kentucky used a detergent spray starlicide to
cause tens of thousands of blackbirds to freeze to death....as they lost insulation.
the heat from their bodies rising like mist as their souls rose from this cruel planet.
Their dying bodies fell out of the trees in which they had
sought shelter for the night.
*
Footnote: Ann Cottrell Free wrote a moving description as she witnessed the atrocity.
*
BOOZE VIOLENCE
*
When some drink too much
alcohol, the party icebreaker..
become bottlebreakers... and
some use the dangerous weapon to
harm and kill
*
LOVING ABUSERS
*
In that life God made him look like
a monster... and told him that his
test was to love all, and to love most
those who most abused him
*
THOU ART NOT DUST
*
Thou art not dust
To dust thou shalt not return.
Thou art not the body, the shell
Thou art Spirit which arose
unique..when the body fell
*
JANUARY TOUCH
He touched hello the lowhanging
pine branch in January... and then
wondered if he was disturbing the
winter tree's dreams?'
*
VACCINES HARMING MAXINES
*
Drug countries in developing lethal pseudovaccines
harm lab animals like Zach, Ann, Maxine
GE
*
War propagandist NBC
owned by war profiteer GE
which filled the Hudson
with PCB's
revised from earlier posting
*
DUGWAY PROVING GROUND
Dugway Proving Ground
Birds flying overhead
have dropped down dead
*
Footnote:
Dugway Proving Ground U.S. Army facility created in 1942 to test biological & chemical weapons, 85 miles (140 km) sw of Salt Lake City, 13 miles south of the 2,624 sq mi Utah Test and Training Range Birds flying over it have dropped dead from poisonshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_Proving_Ground …
THE GENERAL'S BOMBS
From his safe Florida
computer station
he sent out bombs did
General Franks..
which turned human beings
into franks
alive
cardboard memories shadows dweling in the sun..
let me touch you to know what it is to be alive..
let me feel you deep inside and surrender to you to feel that life flowing pure into your embrace..
i look to see if i live and my eyes stutter across your beautiful skin and therein lies my answer..
Not just face value.
Love is a cardboard cut out.
4 letters thrown together in surrender.
Because they couldn't find a word to match Sunday mornings in your tshirt,
And The weight of your arms across my ribs.
Needing nothing.
Being whole.
anonymous
never having climbed too far
she hadn't far to fall ...
the choices were not easy ones
with her back against the wall ~
the steady sound of water drips
was all that she could hear …
their ever rising levels
added fuel to her fears ~
she couldn’t jump – she couldn’t stay
she knew she’d die here either way …
with arms uplifted, clutching air
her final debt was paid.
may she rest in peace.
© Debbie Finlay
07-27-2011