With burning eyes
You probe deeply
into the souls of all men,
You search attentively
where ignorance and lust roam
along shores of slothful gullibility
Your light illuminates and guides
with foresight
offering the means
to embrace invisible life
wisely
with prudence
aforethought, as soft arias whisper
of infinite paths in eternity yet future….
.
Too many fornicate
on salt rotted bridges
ingenuously burdened
with ideological egoism
phantom tongues
pontificate ageless myths
to those eager to ingest the
tactless psychosomatic drooling
of charitable benefactors,
those who sway loosely
as silken strings
trading one life for another
enticing
daily
as the black widow weaves
a far-reaching web of megalomania
in her quest to render Truth benign….
.
In dense forests of imagination
minds conjure relevance and beauty
hoping to find wisdom concealed
in word puzzles revealed while
Your nature seeks those lost
heretofore revealing strongholds of prideful recklessness
You give eyes to see beyond these debilitating impieties
that have plagued the souls of those fallen
through the ages….
.
And where there once was only lead
between small colorful glass panes
You saw argentiferous possibilities
laced with silver and gold
You called
to woo me
accordingly
in lucent terms
to your Holy feet,
in mercy I saw my folly in your light
flooding through open doorways
I stumbled
dropping all that I had
I imagined failure but
You reached out to steady me
breathing in my spirit that
never will you leave me nor forsake me….
.
And in these ripples of melodious discourse
between my spirit and yours
where truth and love supplant the fears
and Light displaces all dark riddles
I heard your honeyed voice assuring me that
You have plans for your creation and that
only puppets dance in silent symphonies….
.
richard lloyd cederberg

                    Between the Cracks - A Monumental Journey Series