Exodus 20:13

Thou shalt not murder It’s not okay to stab someone It’s not okay to shoot them But what if you put on a uniform and wave a flag? It’s not okay What if someone ordered you to? Still not okay It’s not okay to fly a plane and drop bombs on people Press a button…

God Bends Down

The universe is vast And we are so very small Infinitesimally tiny against the cosmos Our great and wonderful world The sum of all our experiences Is itself only a grain of sand On eternity’s beach How can we be important In the face of infinity How can we have meaning Awash on the time…

How I would wish

When I was small I liked to imagine I would sit in the bath and wish I was tiny enough to swim In and out of tunnels and caves made of bubbles Warm and safe in my own little world Later I would dream that I could fly Hover as an eagle above the world…

Lighting the Lamps

Now is the time For the lighting of the lamps Twilight is here And night follows fast Let us illuminate the darkness With a golden glow As we hang the lamps From trees and bushes Let us mark safe passage For all lost souls Through the woodland dark To journey’s end At a bright and…

Sleeping City Monster

Yawn of concrete teeth and asphalt tongue The city, a sleeping monster begins to wake It wails sirens Dark sound screeching like jammed on brakes Belches smog and petrol, refuse and rot While people run about on its skin Like fleas on a dog Why do we live like this Why don’t we jump before…

The Dragon and the Castle

Road winds up to a castle door Towers and turrets and ramparts galore A dragon sits on a nearby hill Hatching its plots to attack and kill On a path through the forest and up to that place A young girl walks with an innocent face If you please, says the girl to the ravenous…

The Borders of Elsinore

Now in the dead of night The spectre steps through from one world to the next In this borderland of ramparts and stone The watchers quail as it turns their way They see its face and know The dead king walks The king’s son, grief-laden Summoned by the watchers Waits in fearful anticipation And then,…

On the River of Light

Full moon glows brightly In a sky awash with stars River of light winds its way Through a vale aglow with shining blossoms My boat glides down the water Towards the vanishing point of Heaven I am safe, O Lord It is Your own country Angel choirs sing Your eternal praise And I am at…

Let the Music In

Let the music play, just let go And you will see it Marvellous shapes, indescribable colours Tints and hues constructing a world beyond imagining You will feel it Textures soft like silk, hard as diamond Rough of solid granite, smooth as translucent glass You will taste it Savor its sweetness, relish the tang Yes, let…

The Breath of God

Night is long, dark and endless Why has light gone from the world? Where is the dawn? We try in our way to shine Stand up and give light to our own small worlds It’s hard to keep shining We can be extinguished so easily And darkness soon returns We need Heaven’s light We need…