In light and love,
In infinite wisdom,
In radiant glory,
For life gone and life to come Continue reading “…Life to Come”
Author: Joel
My Story
I have a story
A story to tell
A story to share
But what words would dare
Casually reflect and express
The feelings of the oppressed
Or tell justly
The grip of injustice
On a society of civilized barbarians.
Bad Reaction
It was a dark starless night. The kind of night in which random murders and rapes happen in the movies. An eerie stillness was in the woods around the house and the croaking of the frogs in the nearby pond was gone. I had heard the now familiar disturbance at first when everyone left for the vigil but now it was all gone. It was my first night alone in the house and I knew I could do it even though the house seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. It was nothing difficult – staying home alone – because, I’m a man.
“Nothing would happen to me.” I kept telling my parents as they prepared for church, with my little sister.
“Are you sure you can’t try to come?” my mother had asked.
“No mom, I’m too sick to stay up all night. I need to rest.”
When they left, I laid down on the long couch in front of the TV. House of Wax was showing and I was about to cover myself with a blanket when the lights went off. That was a normal thing and I knew it would be back in a few minutes since it was our day on, so I stayed there and waited. And that was when I noticed the unnerving quiet. Continue reading “Bad Reaction”
Money
For the needy and poor
For the sake of posterity
For the bolted door
That holds behind it prosperity. Continue reading “Money”
Lessons from Life 2
Life may give me similar memories from different experiences, but from each I’ve learnt a unique lesson and these lessons are priceless. Like Paul said the the Bible, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child…”. But I learnt as life’s student. Then I became a bigger child – a teenager and I thought I was a grown up. I became arrogant, I knew more than everyone, even the so-called grown ups and no one understood the things I was going through – at least that’s what i thought. I claimed things had changed from what the grown ups used to know, that it was a new world, our world! and they had no idea how things are done in it… Boy, was I naïve!
Continue reading “Lessons from Life 2”
Love is Unique…
I could write of love all day long
and tell of its sweet moments in a song,
the painful memories of its loss
And the shattered being that bears the cross.
I could tell of love’s tragedy;
like Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.
Of crossed fate and destiny
and the sweet destruction true lover’s get. Continue reading “Love is Unique…”
Good Friend
Alone and lost in thought
Thoughts of life to come and future unknown
Hope for a better tomorrow.
I leave most behind,
To acquire things long denied.
To see life beyond my horizon
Alone and quietly mulling… Continue reading “Good Friend”