Nana

I know it's been years since you've gone but I still miss you

I miss the way you helped us

I miss the way you could hold us together 

I miss the loving hugs and your caring questions 

You were so strong in the face of death

You held it together when no one else could

You were a great chef

But a better Nana

Life stings and hurts us

I just wish I could hear your sweet soft voice

I wish I could be a kid again and you hold me and tell me it will be ok

I miss you Nana 

I'll never forget the legacy you left me

The Pen

The pen is an extension of my heart
It's a part of me
It releases things inside my soul

The pen is the key
To the deepest parts of me
Inside me is a vast sea
Of thoughts and shipwrecked memories

Through this part of me
I'm able show to you
I open up me seeing if you will read

Between these lines I write
There are countless sleepless nights
With endless tears shed

So when you read
Remember there is more to it
Than simply just scribbles in a notepad
This pen is me
Read and find you

His Child-like Dance

Death died love came to life
Crying all night
Strength evading sight

Worship our Father
Realize there isn't another
Your sin is over
Then end isn't near
The way will come clear

Stand up and find your purpose
How can you sit when He's dancing all around you?
You aren't a lifeless corpse
You know this to be true

His Love

He's death defying purifying and baptizing your love
In the power of his mercy
Stop cursing the day you set foot on earth and realize your birth has meaning
Stop leaning on your own understanding
Find the truth within his crucifixion
His love is like a fire scorching off your sins
Take your heart off the shelf and let it melt in him
His arms are stretched wide
So abide under his wings
Let his love fill your life
You'll stop your strife
With faith like a mustard seed you'll be needless and heedless
Fearfully you will stumble but humbly you won't crumble
Through faith you're life won't be simply painted but purely stated as the voice of a generation
To bring a revolution of revelation to the all that hear
You have a connection to him like a vine to a branch
It's a love you can't catch something that has never ever been and never ever will be again  

His Eye Sockets

See yourself through His eyes
Look at yourself through the right lens
Gods love isn't fearful or ceasing
It's cheerful and exceeding

Look at the way His son suffered
Hear the things they muttered
We must understand His love
With out it we aren't living
We are merely existing

We can't live a life of just us
You aren't a just
Not "just a kid"
Not "just a man"
Not "just a woman"
It's not something you did
You're unconditionally loved
Not ceasing
Never ending
Always sprinting
Always chasing

It's going to be ok
It's going to be alright
You'll never be with out Him
He will never turn his back on you
He won't forsake you
His intentions are true

God is Gooder

Another sleepless night
Another painful sight
Another time I've tried
Another time I've cried

I can't sleep so I turn to the page
Where nothing will matter besides truth
No one cares your age
Only that you sit at the right booth

You've failed to guess the ending
Based on the beginning
We will all continue sinning
But you don't have to keep spinning

Again it's another sleepless night
And a painful sight
That was another time I thought I tried
I just sat there and cried

We all get stuck in vicious cycles
We'll all keep walking for miles
Chains need to be broken
It's not the same old slogan
It's the truth with in us
We were meant to be the bull in the china shop
Not just a tear mop

I've sat and cried
I've continued to try
It might be a sleepless night
But I've seen a beautiful sight

Jesus is greater
God is better
And GOD IS GOODER

An Unseen War

Once upon a midnight dreary
the Earth stood weak and weary
Winds and waves clashed
Demons and Angels danced

To and fro they swung
Swords and daggers dug deep into demonic scaly flesh

An unseen war was waged the day time was made
A war of choices and excuses
A war that has shaken hearts and lives to the core

Life and Love continue to walk hand in hand
Death and destruction gallop carelessly together
However they will never be the same