Testing times are coming

Testing times are coming...
The world is screaming out her pain
So many signs are showing
That man needs to lift his game
Wars and rumours of wars
Calamities everywhere flow forth
Dangerous times are coming
We are being tested for our worth
Too late if you are not ready
Too late if you will not change
Angels hold back the winds of strife
But soon they will let loose the gales
All hell will fall upon our shoulders
Giants wage war upon all shores

Ugly heart

Beauty is only skin deep

External looks are vanity

What use is beauty?

If you have an ugly heart

People might be drawn to you

They might think you're great

But when reality dawns

They'll only see the threat

The ugliness will surface

True light will finally dawn

And their love will disappear

Adoration withdrawn...

It's what's inside: that matters!

It will show through anon

Everything will be as nought

When true feelings

Are forward brought...

All is vanity

"All is vanity" my mind it screamed
This life here that we have to live
As we think we need: deserve
So many things...
"Nothing is as it really seems"
More words flowing: hard and fast
"Think you that you are worthy?"
"Think you that you are good?"
All is superficial: all is transient
It's all a dream: you are merely in it!
A holographic entity: not really here
It serves its purpose but when you wake
You are sickened by the truth...
The honesty of all things rebounds
It echoes within your soul...
And you are left wallowing...
So far from your supposed reality
So far away from your treasured goal

The tempter

When that evil serpent came to tempt me
Using all his unearthly wiles... 
He slid in beside me and whispered
Awful things into my ears as he smiled
"You are not worth your family's tears"
"You are fallen too far to be redeemed"
All these words he whispered unto me
As he tried to bring me even lower
So it seemed...
Only for a moment I thought about it...
Then as I prayed to my Lord in heaven
My strength it was renewed!
"No I will not listen"
"Get thee behind me Satan...
I will not hear your foul words!"
The battle raged on and on
He tried to enter in again and again
But my heart and mind were uplifted
My faith in Jesus resurrected
He brought me through unscathed

Bloodied hands

"Beware the ides of March"
The prophet cried out loud
Caesar would not heed him
Though Calpurnia dreamed and
Begged him to stay at home
He was convinced to attend...
In the senate they were waiting
Ready to take his precious life
Supposed friends: they approached
Daggers hidden up their sleeves
One by one they stabbed him deep
His blood was spilled that day
Washed their hands blood red
Marc Antony came along they say
Shook their bloodied hands anon
Pretending that everything was okay
Thoughts of revenge were in his head
Knowing he must wait for another day
Revenge did come: more blood was spilled

Does the bleeding never end?
How many times must someone pay?
Until all lie dead amid the dust?
Until there is nobody left to slay?
I look around in this day and age
So many willing to kill and lie
Ah dear Lord: nothing has really changed
This vicious cycle never seems to end
Each day the blood still runs red
As more and more poor people die...

Watched Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
A bloody history from ancient Rome
These latter days seem no better...
Life is still not considered precious
Too many poor human beings
Are bleeding out into this dusty ground
For Satan rules too many hearts
And hate goes on and on and on

I am afraid

Lately I am feeling so sad and depressed
Struggling to find peace and happiness
So many things are suddenly getting me down
I am struggling to smile and not frown
The days drag by like snails climbing up a hill
An uphill battle every day: try as I will
To place a smile upon my face
I look in the mirror and feel: ill at ease
I pray constantly for comfort and peace
And yet it returns many times each day
To drown me in this smothering grey
It is a constant battle going on inside
It only disappears after I kneel down and pray
Ah Lord I am lost in this constant misery
It is only with you beside me when I pray
That I can even dream of better days
So wrap me up within your loving arms
Hold me close: keep me safe from harm
Without you Lord I am afraid...
I feel I am nothing worthwhile...

Men's hearts failing them for fear

Too many people living in fear

Fearing for their lives: their souls

Fearing for everything that is to come

Afraid of letting go: afraid of darkness

Afraid to go outside at night: as is right

Afraid of losing everything in a fight

Wars rage around this saddened world

People dying: murders everywhere

Ah dear Lord they just do not care

How can we who search for your light?

Ever expect to find any delight?

In all the senseless carnage

In all the fear and anger that rules...

Men's hearts failing them for fear

Ah dear sweet Jesus: please come soon

Save us from this crazy, angry world...

We are waiting eagerly for your return