Poetry

Flow

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Relax, don’t force it.

Let it come to you.

Be patient, yet persistent.

Be open.

 

Flow.

 

Allow the current to carry you along in a waking dream,

where your perspective is pliable and you conclusions unformed.

In this alternative reality, removed from your five senses, everything is possible.

Only in this void can you feel the true weight of things.

 

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Signs and Wonder

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Waiting on a moment,

Can take an eternity.

All around us, all within us,

signs and wonders bind us.

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Charting one’s stars,

Offers little earthly guidence.

All around us, all within us,

signs and wonders sing to us.

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Why search for a heaven,

which is already here?

All around us, all within us,

signs and wonders dance with us.

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Marginalized

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You want to marginalize me, Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal.

You try to limit me by the color of my skin, be it pale or brown or somewhere in between.

These labels that ease your world, imprison mine.

To objectify me, allows you to disengage or to stoke an unspoken rage.

 

And what if…

What if you could just let me be? What if we all could just wait and see?

What if we could move beyond this ancient need to know,

This primeval need to pre-judge, friend or foe?

 

What then…

Would the things be different, if I opened my heart and let you in?

What if I made a commitment, to share the love I’ve been given?

What then…

If you should forget the lies you’ve been given, would the world end?

If we should remember the truth we should be living, what might begin?

ADJ

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Flawed

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Please don’t hold me in high esteem, because I will fall.
If there be any air beneath me, it is courtesy of wings not my own.
In truth, I am flightless and tar souled, given to roam the heavens by grace alone.
Better instead to praise the One I serve, the giver of life and light.

ADJ

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That Guy – Part One

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I’m “That Guy”

I am That guy you may have labeled a plan “B” guy.

I am That Guy you remained friends with on the chance you were to find yourself 30 and single.

I am That Guy you wanted your daughter to marry. I am That Guy you wanted your sister to go out with.

I am That Guy who never lied to a woman to get what I wanted, no not once. And very seldom have I chased a girl I didn’t really want. Never have I dated a woman simply to notch my belt.

I am That Guy who refused to claim conquests I had not made.

I am That Guy who understood the game, but refused to play.

But I’m also that guy, who between studying engineering, computer science, working and being the primary in-home caregiver for a terminally ill mother, was too underprepared and too overwhelmed to mature much socially during college.

I am still that guy that was raised to “speak” when I see someone I know, even when the world has passed me by.

I’m also that guy who realizes that years from now, should I be blessed to reach old age, I may look back and for a moment wonder, what might have been? What if I had been a little more selfish? What if I had crossed the yellow line of life just because? I know that these moments will come, because they’re already here.

I can only hope that when I look into the eyes of my loved ones and those I have loved who have preceeded me into glory, that I remember that these are not the right questions. For the question is really, what would have been, had God not been with me in those moments of decision? For if one should assume that I am “that guy”, it is not by my own merit, for I am just like any other guy. I am simply a guy whom God smiled upon within those critical moments. I am humbled, grateful and blessed to be that guy.

Alan Jones

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The Standard

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Sometimes you have to yield to the unreasonable, because of love. To go beyond that which is just, is the very nature of love. But in the midst of doing this, do not lose sight of the One true Love; and balance all against this standard, regardless of what the expected outcome might be. May you always have faith enough to let go, and allow God.

ADJ

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The Empty Circle

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Something tearing at your side,

so everything ignores your pride,

and you go dancing around and about,

fearing you’ll find no way out,

just when you think the fear is gone,

you look down and realize what you done.

Alan Jones

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