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Continue reading →: I wanted toI wanted to hold you tight in my arms Hold you And mold you And hide you from harm. I wanted to feel you right on my skin Feel you And peel you And hold you within I wanted to kiss you right on your lips Kiss you And bliss…
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Continue reading →: I know that you can walk on water(Written shortly after the death of my son. Not really about a lack of faith, but a desire for it.) I know that you can walk on water. And I know that you can calm the seas. Oh God, when will you walk beside and calm this storm inside of…
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Continue reading →: Return to Astrocity(I wouldn’t say I love this one, but I still really like it. I have never been pleased with the “chorus,” but also haven’t been able to figure out how to make it better. Anyway, here’s my take on growing up in Houston, TX.) In Astrocity I never went without.…
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Continue reading →: Two To EverythingThis is my simple confession, more or less, inspired by James 3:9: With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. (NIV) There is two to everything I say. One to curse and one to pray.…
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Continue reading →: How can I say?How can you say, “I was tempted beyond my control?” When you give him a hand and a foothold. How can you say, “I was pressured beyond the extremes?” When you followed and wallowed in all of his schemes. The One who started this good work in you will be…
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Continue reading →: I Wish(This is a sad love song that is not about romance, but the death of my son.) I wish I had the words to try and make you see I wish I had a way to bring you back to me I wish I was so wise that I would…
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Continue reading →: As You Wish(This came out of a self imposed exercise to write a poem inspired by a favorite movie, The Princess Bride.) “It must be true love,” he cried as he dropped his eyes. “For I love you still when you’re uncomfortable.” “It must be true love,” he said as he dropped…
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Continue reading →: In The Light of Your Love“Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,” Philippians 3:13 Every question and every sign, All of my lessons and all of my lies, Every beginning and every end,…
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Continue reading →: Everytime and everythingEverything I dream to do, I don’t. And everything I want to do, I won’t. Every prayer I want to pray, confessions that I want to say… Every time I try to speak, I choke. — Every time I try to stand, I fall. Every time I try to run,…
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Continue reading →: Today is tomorrowEvery today I say, “tomorrow I’ll change my mind, I’ll change my ways.” But once again, the same old sin another time, another day. Every today I say, “tomorrow I’ll change my ways, I’ll change my mind.” But once again, the same old sin another day, another time. So, get…
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I’m Simon. Saint Depraved.
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