Blinded

Where do I run to?

Where can I hide?

From God

From myself

From the emptiness inside

Psyche lost in ego

Battened up with pride

Fig leaf of denial

Blind and selfish guide 

There is far more to you

More than you realize

Walk the path of empathy

See through God's own eyes

Open up the shudders

Eyes adjust to light

There you'll find Self, God, and Love

Everywhere applied

That Would Be Heaven

Why is life so hard?

Why are things unfair?

Why are some so cruel?

Why so much despair?

What's the purpose?

Where's the justice?

Who will save us?

When will God entrust us with heaven?

Here's what I have garnered

Discomfort propels all progress towards solutions

Incense lights the fire which tempers ethics

Villains coalesce opposing armies against themselves

Sorrow produces humility, earnest, and empathy

Eventually these will produce comfort and security,

Righteous, self-governed individuals,

Unity among the children of light,

And a wise, honest, merciful, and vigilant community

That would be heaven!

All Things Equal

We're not created equal

Except in these three things

We all cherish life, liberty

And happiness in our being

No power can erase it

Nor break the Divine seal

Inalienable the birthright 

Self-evident and real

We'll fight with our last dying breath

In efforts to retain it

It cannot be trained out of us

Nor can a law restrain it

For it lies at the core of being

The elemental self

Without it we are naught

Possessing no sentient wealth

Thus being equal in these things

Does not make us the same

For each are born with strengths that boost

And deficits that drain

Though empathy can level fields

Towards equal opportunity

It can't guarantee outcomes

For our actions have disparity

For laws of nature must be fixed

And physics clear unbiased

So those that use these rungs to rise

Can have a firm reliance

To exercise their freedom

To bolster up their life

And propagate their happiness

As their God given right

Will Will Will

Will will will 

What he will

When he wills it

Sentience

With heart and mind

Distills it

Will will drive Will's actions

Will will reveal heart

Will will give dreams traction

Will will be the start

Blind feel breeds

What Will sees will be defined by will

Good and bad

Right and wrong

Wise or rash

Weak or strong

Mortals clash like Titans

With endowment of the gods

Force's cache 

Will's great panache

Prevails and spreads abroad

Ripple Effect

A single tear

Fell in the water

Rippling throughout

Generating many waves

Expanding all about

And when it hit it's limits

It went back from whence it came

You can't escape the pain you cause

It finds you just the same

Keys of the Kingdom

Given the power to act

To cause and to effect

To create and destroy

To envision and direct

Exercise great caution

Don't get in a wreck

God has given you the keys

Drive with intellect

Satan's Prayer

Pull the strings of others

But cut and set me free

Bend their actions to my will

Make them worship me

Let them see that I know best

Wholly and self-righteous

Let me save them from themselves

And I will end this crisis