My heart needs to heal, I choose not to feel, My mind is set to reel, I need only to get through This horrific ordeal.

To honour one’s predecessors, Is deserving & kind, Especially ones of the same name So fine, James Dickey writes 'Deliverance’

Help I need counselling, I need a patient, listening ear, One that has been there, Knows I feel & can help me bear The weight of the world,

When I cast my shadow, It brings out the hidden sun, By confronting my fears, My best has just begun, I will not run away

Where is the happiness, I was promised? Where is the mirth & joy, The contentment Is it a ploy?

Proof of God lies in Our kindness To one another without expectation… How we treat the ederly, the poor, Disdvantaged & the foreigner, Proof of God is all around us,

Seek God among the ditch-diggers, The shoe-shiners the porters & the fishers of the sea, Seek God with your heart, Not your eyes of Pomposity,

Every friend or relative I knew Who passed on before me, I keep close in my heart, They live on in memories, Of good times starts

I walk barefoot through a field of… On my way to a local pool, Feeling the fresh brisk morning ai… The grasshoppers tickle my feet as… Do what God make them to do

I live to weave my thoughts Into words, My word into phrases, My phrases jump to life On paper;

I wrap myself in a warm, wool blan… On a wet, cold winter’s day, The isolation itself is a warm, so… Soft & consoling, Warming my weary bones

Our sickness, illness disease Our stumbling blocks, Our unrest, Is God’s method His test Our souls are both

Our bodies are forever changing, Never staying the same, Tomorrow’s joy is today’s pain; From past to present, To future we glide,

The years pass him bye Like the warinessof Father’s All-seeing eye, Like logs so tacitly tossed into t… Chronus is keeping track we aspire…

Hopeless? Ship wreck? Destitute? Mutiny Or land in sight? I must assault the senses I will…