Jennifer Cox

Neal Giedd

As You asked me through a friend
to be Yours and Yours alone,
Myself stepped in between
and pushed the friend away.

But You were persistent;
You persevered;
You kept fighting to win me over from Myself.

You finally had me in Your arms,
snuggled close by-
You leaned in (completely in Love)
to give me a deeply desired kiss-
a kiss to save me forever,
a kiss yearned for for so long-
and Myself stepped in between,
ruining the moment,
taking me back to his dungeon of doom.
Raping me blind of all Your kind.

But You are persistent;
You persevere;
You keep fighting to win me over from Myself

Deep Water Peace
Leslie McDaniel

A song of silence drifts
from the shady bend
where the river flows from,
where the tree limbs linger
over the coolness.

And I think to myself that
if I could capture the river’s song,
I could understand its mystery,


its secret of serenity.

RF