Touch of Gray
Posted on | April 20, 2009 | No Comments
Black and white melds into gray
Didn’t know this would be so hard
Didn’t mean for things to go this way
Turn your head, refuse to turn
back hands of time, they led us astray
Take me down, down into the sea
till tides sweep me away
j.c. justice
Tags: Life Poem > Life Poetry > Relationship Poem > Relationship Poetry
Winter
Posted on | April 20, 2009 | No Comments
I took your words, the
I love you’s and things,
wove them all together
on blue variegated strings.
A blanket of warm fuzzy words
doesn’t offer much comfort
on a night as cold as this.
j.c. justice
Tags: Life Poem > Life Poetry > Relationship Poem > Relationship Poetry
Anguish
Posted on | April 18, 2009 | No Comments
Tears stream down as you slip away.
Reality drags her feet across the face
of everything uncertain and unsaid
while troubles dance encores in your pretty head.
Lost in the compromise to appease
your pain which has become my disease
I’m falling and falling, to my knees.
Lost in You
Posted on | April 17, 2009 | No Comments
Would You hold me
take me in Your Arms
enfold me
in Your Sweet Embrace
look in Your Face
Would You surround me
With Your Undying Love
around me
take me to the Place
where I feel safe
Troubles fade
fears subside
when I run to You
and our worlds collide
Would You cover me
let your precious blood run
over me
kneeling at Your Cross
no longer lost
but lost in You.
j.c. justice
God is Love
Posted on | April 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
God is Love.
The width of His love exceeded
the depth of His pain.
He encompassed our pain,
our shame, our blame
when He opened His arms wide
and they were nailed to a cross.
He loved us
before we took our first breath
and when we took His last.
We carved treacherous wounds
deep into His feet, His hands,
His brow and His side;
but most of all
in His heart
every time we turn our backs
and walk away.
Love makes the ultimate sacrifice,
pays the ultimate price,
endures the greatest pain
yet makes no demands.
God is Love.
j.c. justice
Tags: Christian Poem > Christian Poetry > Inspirational Poem > Inspirational Poetry
Water’s Edge
Posted on | March 31, 2009 | No Comments
Would you wait for me
by your lonely seaside?
Would you watch for my return
from my drifting tide?
Would you let me go
until you see me no more?
As sun sets sail on fading horizon
Would you linger at sea’s shore?
Would you listen for my voice
whispering across the oceans of time?
Calling against wind and driving rain
and the sound of your hope dying?
Would you search for my footprints,
or would you turn away and leave your own
to fall to the rise of ebb and flow,
erasing the path that leads me home?
j.c. justice
Tags: Life Poem > Life Poetry > Relationship Poem > Relationship Poetry
Cousins
Posted on | March 31, 2009 | No Comments
On the rare and wintry days
When time and innocence stood still
Our frosty snow angels graced the ground
Falling flurries enchanted us and window sills
On the lazy summer days
The sun warmed our hearts and faces
Little legs swung off an old wooden porch
Mimosas set the mark for wheelbarrow races
On the crisp Thanksgiving days
We played king of the storm cellar hill
Moms in aprons looked on from Grandma’s kitchen
These were the days our childhood stood still
On the air of newborn spring days
Blissful breezes float through fresh washed cotton
The milkman opens the back screen door
To the old place where memories are never forgotten
Throughout the times and tides of life
Seasons pass and memories wane
But the bonds of love are passed down through us
And remains our unbroken chain
j.c. justice
In Search of Someday
Posted on | March 31, 2009 | No Comments
How can you talk about your someday
When you’ve never turned the page?
You stand holding your tears of yesterday
Gazing out of your memory-gilded cage.
When will your daybreak ever come
If your nightfall is never done?
You die a thousand deaths at the verge of your doorstep
And today’s tomorrow never sees the sun.
Your search is already over
Before you’ve even yet begun
While all the what if’s and what might have been’s
Go on…and on…and on.
j.c. justice
Never Forget
Posted on | March 31, 2009 | 3 Comments
I kissed my loved ones goodbye
told my children not to cry
choked by words left unspoken
haunted by raw emotion
Still pressed on by fierce resolve
Knowing the outcome that this could involve
I go and fight for Country’s sake
For Freedom’s ring and Liberty’s stake
Crimson spills out, and trickles down
Indistinctive from my comrade’s, I have found
Darkness ascends, and with it, peace comes down
Lying on this hallowed ground
I did my best, gave my all
I wonder if my name will join others’ on a wall?
Those who answered the valiant cry of a hero’s beckon
They’ll take Mom and Dad the news tonight, I reckon
So tonight as you lie in your warm safe bed
You’ve tucked in your family and kissed their heads
Remember me, my family, and the high price I bled
And never forget the color of freedom is stained blood red.
j.c. justice
In honor of Jarrett B. Thompson
Time and Tide
Posted on | March 29, 2009 | No Comments
Intruding.
Receding.
Pressing forward.
Drawing away.
Leaving telltale scars
across life and time.
Unmerciful and derisive
as waves cut the same path
over and over.
Crushing sometimes,
gently lapping at others,
but always eroding.
Sandcastle dreams
sparkle in the sun’s limelight
then are swept asunder,
spilling secret hopes
onto sinking sand,
drowning in their own creation.
j.c. justice
Tags: Life Poem > Life Poetry > Relationship Poem > Relationship Poetry
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