(i)solation on the mount / Sanctification

(i)solation on the mount

unbridled by pain
i can not count the cost
of what defense bills pay away
so i stay awake, in the lane
God gifts to you this half empty vessel
tormenting languorously in the living room

sounds of a heartbeat dies like the sun into the ocean
every night, i picture this before the close
clothed tips of the covers, heat rises and breaks the comfort
we toss and turn and ruffle the thoughts of bombs that cut like blinking points
until i decide to do the unthinkable to break the unspeakable i
call you

some might say he died that way
3 kings seeking the star that late
night astral cars burning gas to get to and from themselves
what is it that we chase when i call u
if it isn't to get out of my own head
what would be better off instead
roaming for free?

see there is no fee
no price to tag
no taxes or duty
our ordinary could be
to take care of u and me
but we lost sight
in our unbridled greed

the governments couldn't agree
the people fought for free
the private corporations charged the key
to drive us off the cliff gently
into the night we go until we learn how to degrow
demystify the land before time
and close our eyes to see justice flowing
like rivers for the wretched of our earth

there is nothing to gain
nowhere else to colonize
purchasing power, plunders into gluttony's disguise
to get us to forget yours and remember my guiltless pride
for the glory of the king's design

There are no more rulers
twisted charades of fate
Only backed against borders
where do we go to die in wait?

wolves and the wraith
a diamond in years of ill gotten pay
of whose is mine is not yours a land
ridden of holy value, I pray

Lost in the hidden gale
forgotten humanity
food lost over bridges
Hope starts to pale

how much is the loss
to regain the coin from the toss
to pull back and to find error in our way
one day
we always seem to say

this game of war has always had us in chains
losing sight of our brother and our sister
while our mothers cry over the head of her child gone
missing missing missing missing missing missing

what was the point of war won?
of land to call ours?
questions go unanswered
as isolation devours

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Sanctification (Embrace)

there is a garden of forking paths

the way of the world seeks to sanctify violence
violence of each other bleeding under trampled foot
our world, a collective visceral soot
condoning of action and reaction
Karmic tracing circuition

the way of the holy spirit seeks to sanctify each other from our
bloody mess into life born again
to be called set apart
to be holy
for a special use or purpose
eternal nova

to know that the cost of living is paid
to know the debt of peace is paid
to know the heart and minds are renewed
that loving forgiveness is possible
that war is over

if we want it.

we have so much to give up
but if you give it all up
you stand to gain in the release
A slingshot of peace for you
and for me

The weapon of deliverance
catches the goliath
with the way,
with the path beset before you
before
the foundations of earth were
created

a courage in the pain
we walk forth with a living purpose
not known to the path of the world

This kingdom of heaven is within
and there is nothing else i shall want
just like when we were a boy or a girl

Can you somehow see the sufferings of our past
As grace?
For the growing work that we must do
Is to see with eyes unclouded by hate
Before it is too late
Take hold of it all
Come out of the cave
God calls us to love
good news is on its way
For Humanity's embrace.