rhymarhyma poetry 5

[rhymarhyma]

Random thoughts becoming real

I live, I kill, I die with you
Live, kill, die...I cry with you
Live,kill, die...I fly with you
Live, kill, die...so high with you...

I have become the fallen...who will help me stand
Why do you turn away as I am calling for your hand
I can't understand why I did the things I did
and, man...I never should have killed that kid
A more bitter lie was never tasted
and I tell you now, no cry is wasted
The truth never changed as the lowly serpent smiled
We are the animals of the field...we are the beasts of the wild
I am a story teller, but what I tell is no tall tale
I am a glory teller, and what I tell is not for sale
GODISNOWHERE...in our direction
GODISNOWHERE...in our reflection
Good news, good news...Lord knows I need it
GOD IS NOW HERE...hey, depends on how you read it
I was confined in my mind...a mental prison
No room in the tomb for He who has risen
Mercy is as mercy was
and I am loved...just because
Beautiful faces...beautiful graces...
appearing here from most beautiful places
I may fall...you may applaud
but in the midst of it all...I call on God
The Lord holds me close, like no other
and he cries my tears when I miss my mother
and he knows I feel I let her down
The tears of a clown...on the tears of a clown
When there's no one around, God offers new hearts
Ending all my endings by beginning new starts
Parting ways with teardrops past
I crashed and burned and died so fast
Random thoughts becoming real
and I kind of miss the days when I didn't feel
Dead men tell no tales, they say
but I live to die again some other day
Resurrection...I know it to be true
I've witnessed life, then death...then life anew
My youngest was born dead, and though I've never told him
there was a fifty-fifty chance that I would never get to hold him
I know the scent, and the taste, and the color of death
and I thank you, dearest Jesus, for giving my child new breath
If you've ever read these rhymes, and you've read between the tears
then you know God brought me back...'cause I was dead for years
I was a dead man walking, a dead man talking
Knocking on the gates of hell...with blackbirds stalking
Pecking at my flesh, pecking at my bones
and pecking at my soul as they were laughing at my moans
I was the king of my cage, the words echoed through my cell
I AM MY OWN GOD...and then the false god fell
I fell far and I fell hard
because the devil's in the details of the mentally scarred
So I call on God, I read his word
The bible gives me meaning in this theater of the absurd
This is the church, this is the steeple
The bible doesn't judge people...people judge people
It is the real director's version, live and uncut
and it tells me Jesus loves me...no...matter...what...

Staring at this screen wanting a scene to play out
Three cups of caffeine and there's no way out
Five sticks of nicotine before the letters rolled out
Bartering night to write...and now I'm all souled out...

 

[rhymarhyma]

Saving grace

Walkin' the green mile in the Mile High
"Martinez, death sentence...tell your people goodbye"
I see raging gray waters under the bright blue sky
as I stand before judgment, not ready to die...

Shaking and scared, unable to run
I cried out for mercy...someone...anyone...
as a book was presented labeled Volume 1
and in it was recorded every wrong I'd ever done

Wrongs against my family, wrongs against my friends
The dirt I did towards strangers, never making amends
The list goes on and on though Volume 1 never ends
and I was guilty of them all...as my soul descends

"Michael Martinez, how do you plead"
"Insanity, Father, the world planted a seed"
"It drove me mad for the lust and for the evil and the greed"
"Yet I stand guilty against the laws that you decreed"

I was guilty towards the grace that I received
and guilty towards the love that I deceived
but Christ interceded...I was redeemed, I was retrieved
He said "You did as I asked, child; you loved me back because you believed"

 

[rhymarhyma]

One day I ran into a friend

One day I ran into a friend

who I hadn't spoken to in years

It felt so good to talk to him

I couldn't hold the tears

I asked him where he'd been

why so long before our paths crossed

It seemed he cried inside as he softly replied

"I wasn't the one who was lost"


-My friend is Jesus-


His words echoed in my mind

and I knew just what he meant

How could a child become so wild

a child who was Heaven-sent

I knew it was my demon

in the form of alcohol

and my friend reassured me

that I could rise after the fall


-My friend is Jesus-


I started explaining to him what happened

since the last time we had spoken

All the madness I did, all the sadness I hid

how I'd gotten so twisted and broken

So many sad times, too many sad rhymes

all the hurt and the pain

and my friend said "You wouldn't enjoy the

sunshine as much

if you never got caught in the rain"


-My friend is Jesus-


I asked him why he waited

and how he knew I'd come back through

and four little words changed my life that day

when my friend simply said "Because I love you"

I asked how I could repay him

and this is the last thing that I heard

"I am the the word of life, my child

now go out and spread the word"


-Your friend is Jesus-

 

[rhymarhyma]

I stand, I bow

Like a frightened child holds his mommy's hand
I hold unto you, Lord
Like a puzzled child who can't understand
I ask upon you, Lord
Like a stubborn child ignores a command
I sometimes leave you, Lord
Like a brave little child making a stand
I stand before you, Lord

I stand, I bow, right here, right now
and thank you for your grace
You've brought me back from shades of black
to this most sacred place
You gave me breath as I faced death
and brought me from the edge
So now I stand and hold your hand
and to thee I do pledge
You are my King, my everything
salvation on this earth
My wings I'll spread, I'm never dead
an angel before birth
I once was lost, but any cost
is what my Lord would pay
to save my soul, to make me whole
to take my sins away
I have been blessed, I'll do my best
to live how I should live
As Christ has done, the holy Son
so too must I forgive
So too must I solely rely
on God and his great grace
Never defy, never deny
his most majestic place
Now that I've heard, the truth, the word
the choice is up to me
to keep my mind and heart confined
or set my spirit free

 

[rhymarhyma]

For you

He shines the sun for you, my lass
to prove to you the dark will pass
Hoping soon that you will see
He is the truth, He'll set you free

He sheds a tear for you, my sweet
curled up in your retreat
Hoping soon you realize
one who believes never dies

He offers words to you, my son
on the edge, on the run
Hoping soon that you will hear
He's never left, He's always near

He promises a new dawn, my girl
eyes of green and skin of pearl
Hoping that the times you stray
are gone away like yesterday

He gave His life for you, my child
living reckless, living wild
Hoping soon you'll change your ways
He'll love you forever, the rest of your days

He shapes a path for you, my lost
to save your life at any cost
Hoping soon you switch your track
See the light, don't fade to black

He reaches out to you, my daughter
almost sinking, treading water
Hoping soon you do not drown
He'll lift you up, not let you down

He makes it rain for you, my lad
to wash away the pains you've had
Hoping soon that you will know
never will He let you go

He gives a voice to you, my dear
for seven words He longs to hear
Hoping soon that you will say
"I give my life to Christ today"